Monday, October 29, 2012

 

Sam's first bundt cake

Pumpkin Pound Cake


Friday, October 26, 2012

 

Bears for Obama

Proving even the wildlife in this town is progressive.


Monday, October 22, 2012

 

Greetings Earthlings from Bowman, SC

Funny the things you find by wandering off the interstate. Coming home from a fall break weekend on Hilton Head Island, we came across the welcome center after finding a park for our picnic.


Tuesday, October 16, 2012

 

Fall Family night

 Time to see what Sam and the 4th graders have been up to so far this year. Lots of interesting projects around their work on exploring other cultures and their camping trip near and visit to Cherokee, NC.




Another big part of their work so far has been a study of birds. The bird banding field trip inspired some students to poetry - here is Sam's:


Hawk

Diving to a songbird,
I am almost on bird
heading to the sky,
I am Fierce not shy
Little Birds are yummy,
when there (sic) in my tummy.

                               ~Sam





Monday, October 15, 2012

 

Siamese twins?


 

Fall Daredevils

Ford on the trike. Leaf pile courtesy of Sam.
(click on the picture for a better view)

Sunday, October 14, 2012

 

Tandem trike


 

One more critter

An addendum to the summer critter post below.
Nothing like snail slime on your forehead. Is that good for your complexion?




Thursday, October 11, 2012

 

Sam's summer menagerie






A sampling of Sam's critter encounters from this summer.






 

Cosmic convergence?

Filling in his reading log, Sam noted that today is ten eleven twelve.

Happy Thursday


Friday, October 05, 2012

 

Big Bald Bird Banding

Sam's class made the second of two trips to Big Bald Wednesday to visit the fall migration bird banding station. The research is led by Mr. Mark who did a great job engaging 21 fidgety fourth graders.










The main activity was collecting data on the songbirds that were captured that morning in the mist nets. Each was weighed and measured. The class got up close to Slate colored Juncos, Tennessee Warblers, a Swainson's Thrush. a Downy Woodpecker, Sharpshinned hawks and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.


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