Joanne Mitchell and George Webster Public School

: This is what young Syria can look like as it begins its way in Canada; wide-eyed and quiet, smiling yet tentative, living with unimaginable memories — old schools bombed to rubble, neighbours blown to pieces — but now bursting to be one of the locals, according to Toronto Star. The best thing about my first day I made a friend, says Ibrahim — call him Brahim — in Arabic through an interpreter Wednesday on his second day at the school near Danforth Ave. and Victoria Park Ave. Yet as his Grade 5 teacher Joanne Mitchell here at George Webster Public School hands him a bilingual copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar — in English and Arabic! — and classmates, many of Bengali and Pakistani background, choose him as their basketball partner and show him around, he is becoming very much found. With a smile, he points to classmate Hammad Sami, 9, who says he knows the Syrian refugees have come to Canada because there a war there. The Syrian refugee recently arrived in Canada with his familiy from Lebanon. Steve Russell Ibrahim Sultan, centre in blue sweater, lines up outside his new classroom at George Webster Public School in Toronto, where he is starting Grade 5. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.