Halloween & "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" Play

Congratulations to all my 3rd graders for putting on an excellent play! I'm very proud of all the cast members who gave it their best! 

The World War I flying ace on his imaginary mission

Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

3rd grade will perform "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" on Friday, October 29th. Come out and see if Linus will finally meet The Great Pumpkin, or if he is just a myth. Happy Halloween!!

Blue Moon On New Year's Eve

Tonight's full Moon is a "Blue Moon." It's the second full Moon this month and the first Blue Moon to fall on New Year's Eve in nearly 20 years. Blue Moons are rare (once every 2.5 years). Blue Moons on New Year's Eve are rarer still (once every 19 years).

Thanksgiving: From A Turkey's Point of View

Thanksgiving: From A Turkey's Point of View

by: Julia Rice

Hi, my name is Bob. I'm a turkey, and here's my point of view for Thanksgiving. Now don't get my wrong, I love Thanksgiving! Oh, except for the part where I become the meal. Now for the main course of the meal I would choose corn, fresh off the cob. I would sprinkle filling around the corn for a snazzy look. For Thanksgiving you have to have cooked pumpkin seeds too! For the second course, use fresh pumpkin for some pumpkin pie. Now I know this sounds weird, but I like whip cream on apple sauce! Oh, and on pumpkin pie also.
When you have it all ready, invite your family over. Before you eat, welcome everybody when they come in the door. Tell them to sit down politely and say a speech. Say a prayer and tell them to enjoy! When you are finished with the meal, play games like pin the gobble on the turkey, musical feathers, and put on a play. Once your all finished and everyone is home, start to clean up!

Icebergs

7/8th of an iceberg is underwater

Fall Foliage

Phases of The Moon

Solar Eclipse

July 21, 2009 South Pacific

2009 Meteor Showers

I found a pretty neat website that tells you which months are good for viewing meteors. The site shows you the dates, frequency, and moon phase. Choose a clear, dark night and look into the night sky for satellietes and meteors! Check out Skyscrapers, Inc. more information.

Spring At Lack Tuscarora

Feeding Time

Crow Chasing a Bald Eagle

Crow Chasing a Red-Tailed Hawk

Lance Armstrong At The Giro D'Italia

Vernal Equinox (Spring)

On March 20, 2009 at 7:45 AM (Easter Standard Time) our earth's axis will be at an equinox. An Equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from or towards the Sun. The Sun is vertically above a point on the Equator, which gives us about 12 hours of daylinght and 12 hours of night; or an equal amount of each. Here is a picture of the sun illuminating the earth on the day of the equinox.

Four-Leaf Clover

So how rare is a four-leaf clover? It has been estimated that there are approximately 10,000 three-leaf clovers for every four-leaf clover! According to legend, each leaflet represents something: the first is for hope, the second is for faith, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck. Clovers can have more than four leaflets; the most ever recorded is twenty-one!! Next time you are out in a clover field, start looking around...GOOD LUCK!!

Everest Base Camp

In the novel "Peak", we talk a lot about base camp and advanced base camp (ABC). Climbers go between the two to get acclimatized to the altitude, to prevent altitude sickness. I thought it would be neat to see an actual base camp on Mt. Everest. You can see the summit of Mt. Everest in the background at 29,028 ft.!

Mount Washington

Mount Washington, located in New Hampshire is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States, at 6,288 feet. It is famous for its dangerously wild weather, holding the record for the highest wind gust directly measured at the Earth's surface, at 231 mph!! on the afternoon of April 12, 1934. Check out more Mt. Washington information from the observatory at the top, at this cool website...http://www.mountwashington.org/

Nacreous Clouds

Nacreous clouds are located in the stratosphere between 9 and 16 miles high. Their "mother of pearl" colors come from sunlight striking tiny ice crystals inside the clouds. Very low temperatures near -85o C are required to form the crystals, which is why nacreous clouds are seen mainly during winter over places like Alaska, Iceland and Scandinavia. This photo was taken in Trondheim, Norway (12/17/08), by Ivar Marthinusen. For more information click on http://www.spaceweather.com/

Graphic Source and Wind Chill

Here is a graphic source that helps us tell what the wind chill is. What is wind chill? Wind chill is the apparent temperature felt on exposed skin, which is a function of the air temperature and wind speed. The wind chill temperature (often popularly called the wind chill factor) is always lower than the air temperature.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

The Turkey and Ham

by: David Clouser

On Thanksgiving Day

I had turkey and ham

sitting beside my friends

Colton and Cam

How to Cook a Thanksgiving Turkey...

by: Austin Hutchinson

My wife said she wanted a turkey for Thanksgiving.

So I got the the old 22 and the old dog, and we set off.

When I got home my wife said, "where's the turkey?"

"Here it is" I said, "Are you satisfied?"

I then asked her to cook it up, I was starving!

Now, I'll tell you how to cook it.

Step 1: Fry it

Step 2: Wait 30 minutes

Step 3: Eat Up

Happy Thanksgiving!

How to Cook a Thanksgiving Turkey..

by Raven Wirrick

First, you thaw out the turkey and preheat the oven to 400 deg. F.

Second, you put 1 pinch of salt, 1 pinch of sugar, and 1 dash of every seasoning that you can think of on the turkey. Third, you add whatever you think needs to be added. Fourth, you wait for the oven to "ding."

Fifth, put the turkey in the oven. Then, you put the timer on for 30 minutes. When the bell rings, check the bird. If it isn't brown, put in back in for 20 more minutes.

Gettysburg Address

145 years ago Abraham Lincoln gave one of the most famous speeches in American history. Lincoln gave his address on the afternoon of November 19, 1863. This short 2 minute speech came four and a half months after the battle of Gettysburg.