{"id":2601,"date":"2025-01-28T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:22:23","slug":"students-at-alexander-robinson-elementary-get-cirrus-about-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/students-at-alexander-robinson-elementary-get-cirrus-about-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Students at Alexander Robinson Elementary get \u2018cirrus\u2019 about the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2W4UX3Dr9Ko?si=iEA1YKi9mw2e08jw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Robinson Elementary students are forecasting a blizzard of fun in the weather club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like, you\u2019re looking at weather, you\u2019re learning about it,\u201d said Grade 4 student Willow, who is a member of the club.<\/p>\n<p>Every Monday and Friday morning, students in the weather club deliver the forecast to the whole school over the announcements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did it today, this morning,\u201d said Grade 4 student Mayla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do it all the time,\u201d added Willow.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the forecast on the school announcements is one of their favourite things about being in the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou talk into a phone,\u201d Mayla explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first, it feels, like, really scary,\u201d said Willow. \u201cBut once you warm up, it\u2019s kind of better. You\u2019re kind of not scared anymore because you\u2019ve already done it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The weather club is made up of about 10 students that meet every Friday at lunch time. Grade 4\/5 teacher John Schwarz started the club seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18375 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sd42.ca\/assets\/media\/ARE-Weather-Club-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been passionate about the weather ever since I was about the age of the students I\u2019m teaching right now,\u201d Schwarz said. \u201cI could talk to 10 different people throughout any given day and always be happy to talk them about the weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the club is to learn about the weather in greater detail, Schwarz explained, but also have fun doing it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18377\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sd42.ca\/assets\/media\/ARE-Weather-Club-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"279\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Schwarz&#8217;s T-shirt featuring a cirrus cloud pun made by a student.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students learn about the different types of clouds outside, how to read weather models to predict trends, and put on schoolwide competitions where classes make educated guesses on how much snow or rain the area is going to get.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe go to [\u2026] radar sites from Environment Canada and from the University of Washington in Seattle and we look at storms,\u201d Schwarz said. \u201cWe also have a weather station located at the top of our roof and students get real-time information about what is happening at our school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students say they enjoy tracking storms and reading the radar site maps because it helps them predict when there might be snow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy favourite part is we get to know when there\u2019s going to be snow and when there [are] going to be hurricanes,\u201d said Grade 4 student Caylen.<\/p>\n<p>Stella, who is also in Grade 4, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to know when it\u2019s going to snow and when it\u2019s going to be sunny and then I can prepare for the days,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>The weather club goes beyond just delivering the forecast to the school, Schwarz added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always like to relate the weather club to things that are happening in our world,\u201d he said, whether that\u2019s learning about significant weather events like a hurricane or why we haven\u2019t had a cold winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s\u00a0also\u00a0important\u00a0that\u00a0we\u00a0go\u00a0outside\u00a0and\u00a0we\u00a0scan\u00a0the\u00a0skies,\u201d Schwarz said.<\/p>\n<p>Students look at the clouds and identify their classification and characteristics, such as cirrus clouds that are white, wispy and feather-like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also look at wind direction so we can see where the clouds are coming from and going to,\u201d Schwarz said. \u201cAnd we also have many weather instruments that will tell us about the pressure readings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the year, Schwarz hopes students take away one key lesson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeather, although it\u2019s fascinating to watch, it\u2019s very complicated,\u201d he explained. The weather forecast is \u201cvery reliable\u201d in the first two days, but \u201cnot very reliable\u201d beyond five days.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sd42.ca\/assets\/media\/ARE-Weather-Club-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Robinson Elementary students are forecasting a blizzard of fun in the weather club. \u201cIt\u2019s like, you\u2019re looking at weather, you\u2019re learning about it,\u201d said Grade 4 student Willow, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/alexanderrobinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}