Our trip to Badger Mountain was good times for all. Students set up a photo point, caught insects, and made observations of animal activity. We all look forward to going back in a few weeks to see what has changed.

Letter Home May 2

May 2, 2008

Dear Radical Parents,

We have had a most exciting week and on Friday we got to go on a field trip to Badger Mountain. We saw lots of scat like cow, coyote, and deer. We found a huge ant hill full of red ants with a colony underneath. There was also black ants and Tyler found a really cool millipede. Shanda also found a lady beetle. At the ski hill we did a photo point with a few second graders. Our class had lots of fun!

Our plant experiment is still going on and some of the plants are sprouting while others are getting huge. The one in Tyler’s bag is almost 5cm. We also had a town hall meeting and some of us got ribbons. Colt was the grand prize winner.

Next week we look forward to going to Douglas Creek and doing a creek survey and PH tests. That is about all we can remember about our week.

Sincerely

Your Hiker

Poetry

Douglas Creek Work Trip One

Third and Fourth grade students working together to prepare for our first Douglas Creek trip. In these pictures they are labeling their stream reach with the correct items which will help them as they fill out the stream reach survey at the creek.

Students are completing field guide pages and mural work for the Biodiversity project.

Student's Studying Animal Prints

Rain

Rain

Rain is as cold as ice.

Rain splashes down like snow.

Rain is as blue as a blue coat.

Oh how I hate rain

My Sister

My Sister

My evil sister is a pain like a nail in your foot.

She hates me like a thunder storm that claws at your window at night.

She is as bossy as your mom when she’s angry with all her might.

She’s as gentle as a porcupine on your back.

Who knew that a three year old can be this much trouble like an evil little genius.

The Roman Bath Houses

Do you know that Rome has a bath house that is humongous? To keep the bath warm there is a furnace. The furnace is under the floor. Because it is under the floor it is able to heat the pools and also heat the floors and rooms. The people who keep the fire going are slaves. The walls are hollow so the heat will not come out from the bath house. Eventually the heat will go out but not for a couple hours. The bath houses are so huge it’s amazing! One tub in the bath house can fit 1,000 people. Imagine two tubs that would equal 2,000 people. That is a lot of humans. In the bath house there are three different tubs and they all have names, so I will tell you what they are called. First there is the Frigeadium, which is a cold pool. Then there is the Tepadrium, and that is a medium warm pool, and finally there is the Caldarium. The Caldarium pool is the very hot pool. Because it is so hot it allows you to sweat. Boys and girls, don’t worry, the girls have a different bath house then the boys. If you sweat this allows you pours to open up so the dirt and stuff will come off and out of your skin. Definitely now you know how awesome and huge the bath house really is.

Letter April 18

April 18, 2008

Dear Parents,

We have the most tiring week of the year! Our class has been WASL testing the entire week. Each day the test last for about two hours and afterward our brains are exhausted. Unfortunately Mr. Grillo made us do math after the second session of WASL math but then we got to do a Bio Blitz outside. Our class also got a new students named Isaac. So now our class is up to thirteen. Because on Friday we didn’t have WASL we spent a lot of time working on many different activities. We worked on Roman writing, some started a mural, finished field guide pages, discovered plants that would work in our new school garden and helped design and display case. Our class also started working on learning vocabulary for Douglas Creek and many of us finished our plant experiment procedure. As you can see we had a very busy week.

Sincerely

Your Amazing Test Taker

The Building Goes On!

Plant Cell Observations

Fun With Bugs

Roman Roads

Would you like to know about the Roman Roads? I am an archeologist and I’m going to talk about the roads found in the Roman Empire. To begin with roads were made with layers. First they dug a ditch for the road. Then they put sand in for the first layer. The second layer was rocks. Their third layer was kibble stone. And the last layer is trash. Now I’m going to tell you about how people got across the road. All the people had to walk they couldn’t drive. They couldn’t drive because they didn’t have an engine to put under the hood. They also needed metal for the doors but they didn’t have that stuff. But they did have chariots, pulled by horses. I’m now going to talk about how old the roads are. The roads are 2000 years old, which is why they didn’t have cars. A lot of the roads are still there because they were built very strong. Now you know how exciting the Roman Roads are.