Why a Florida mother pulled her son out of the first week of first grade to learn about polar bears, beluga whales and more in the wilds of Canada.
My son’s eyes pooled like a melting glacier. We were in Churchill, a town of roughly 900 people nicknamed the “Polar Bear Capital of the World,” in Canada’s Manitoba province. It was mid-August, and I’d pulled Nico out of his first week of first grade in Florida for a “Family Learning Adventure” with Frontiers North Adventures and a trip I was sure would be worth missing a week of school to attend. But I’d been wondering whether anything was sinking in.
is the first thing you see upon landing at the airport. Together with our group of four other families – hailing from Toronto, Denver, Vancouver and Washington, DC – we set out to learn all we could. During a low-tide walk to the SS Ithaca, a rusting freighter grounded along the shore of Hudson Bay since 1960, the kids marveled at fossils and the idea that they were strolling across the seabed while my son splashed in tidal pools and gaped at his first real shipwreck .
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