Upcoming Events: No School Nov 24-28 Happy Thanksgiving!
What a fun week! We started the week with a new math unit: Looking for Pythagoras. The unit started with mapping on a coordinate grid. We played a game of Human Twister to practice plotting points on a Cartesian grid.
We ended the week in beautiful Borrego Springs. After arriving around noon on Thursday, we set up camp, ate lunch then embarked on a nice hike to Palm Canyon Oasis. The dry dusty hike ended in a cool palm oasis. I have hiked here many times and was surprised at how dry even the oasis was. Usually we would have seen trickles of water as we got closer to the palms. We were hoping to see bighorn sheep, native to the area. We did find a frog or two! Throughout the trail, kids climbed on the beautiful rocks and enjoyed each others' company. As we were walking back from the 3-mile hike, the winds started blowing from the west bringing clouds with them. Dinner was a pre-Thanksgiving feast of roast turkey and ham, corn, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cornbread and stuffing. Pie and s'mores made a perfect end to a great meal. Unfortunately those evening clouds didn't go away and kept the stars at bay. We were unable to see anything but low flying planes through our telescope! Our High Tech High astronomy buddies decided to stay home and reschedule a night with the stars at IA soon. We woke up to a wet morning after a little rain around 4 in the morning. It was nothing hot chocolate and pancakes couldn't cure though! Many thanks to the students who contributed food, tents and supplies and to our chaperones, Wes, Cynthia, Elise, Susan and Sandra. Thank you, parents for allowing me the chance to get away with your kids. We had a blast!
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