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‘It’s Alive’: McKitrick students now published authors
The platypus had the students confused.
In Kat Hillacre’s Grade 4 classroom at McKitrick Community School, her pupils learn about different habitats around the world and the animals who live in them.
“I like to do projects that are more student-based, they kind of pick where the directions of things going to be going,” she said.
“I started noticing very quickly that when we were doing our habitats and communities unit they were really engaged.”