Rianna's Report to Mrs. Harm's Class

 We have just finished touring through the Atlantic provinces!  We were reading Chapter One in the grade five Social Studies text, which just happens to be on Atlantic Canada!

Just the other day, we visited the Annapolis Tidal power station that is shown in a photo on page 39 of the text.   

A couple of days ago we visited the Maritime Museum in Halifax, and looked at the exact poster that shows the shipwrecks around Sable Island Alistair talks about on page 40.

The photograph of the wigwam (that looks just like the photo on p. 44) was taken at Fort William Historical Village.

The photograph of the porcupine quill basket was taken at the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, and looks just like the one on page 47.

We learned about fishing for Cod, and saw them drying on racks, just like on p. 46, when we were at Fort Lousiburg in Cape Breton.

We visited the same area that Pierre Du Gua de Monts explored, (p. 48) and saw the remains of Fort Anne.  After this, we travelled through the area where the Acadians first settled.

Rianna's words about this are:  I am so happy that we are travelling and learning about this in real life, and seeing the stuff that you guys are reading in the text book!  I will have many more pictures to share when I get back to school!  It is kind of freaky that this is the chapter that talks about all this stuff I have just seen!