SACS DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS 10-23-2023
VOYAGERS 4TH GRADE LEARNING ABOUT NATIONAL PARKS AND MORE
Ms. Sato and Ms. Teenyanoff are piggy-backing a lot of learning onto the annual fat bear competition that takes place in Alaska park system each year. The grizzly (brown) bears in Alaska fatten up on salmon before heading into hibernation over the winter. In order for them to survive, the bears need to consume vast amounts of fish and berries. The transformation from their lean figures to the ones that they reach before hibernation is fascinating. There are online video cameras that show the bears catching salmon, and each viewer can vote for the bear they think appears to have changed the most over the summer season prior to hibernation.
In the pictures that were taken in Ms. Sato's classroom on Thursday afternoon, October 19th, the students were creating posters to persuade viewers that the bears each student chose deserved to be the winner of the fat bear contest. Link to 21 Pictures.
BIKING (AND WALKING) FRIDAY
A modest group of hardy bikers and a few walkers met at Houghton Park on Friday morning, October 20th. They formed a train and headed carefully to school. The walkers followed more slowly and were supervised by two adults.
The purpose of these biking Fridays, and there is one more this coming Friday, is to get us thinking about alternatives to riding to school in our family vehicles. The climate committee hope that the number of students that walk and bike to school will increase over time. We are lucky to be one of the few towns in Vermont that have sidewalks in most places and that have most of our students living within a mile of school. Alternatively, if walking and biking are not appealing, know that busing to school is a less energy intensive transport method than traveling to school in smaller vehicles.
Link to Poster showing transportation energy used for walking, biking, family transport and buses
RAIDER WEAR (CLOTHING)
This is the LINK FOR ORDERING RAIDER WEAR!
LINK TO FLYER with the clothing choices and costs. QR code on flier takes you to the ordering form.
WALKING WEDNESDAYS
There are 4 Walking Wednesdays scheduled this month. Get ready to walk with one of six different groups coming to St. Albans City School on Wednesdays. Link to map, meeting points and meet-up times
BIKING FRIDAYS IN OCTOBER (FROM HOUGHTON PARK TO SCHOOL)
“It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.”
— The Lorax
Greetings from the Climate Committee! We are announcing Biking Fridays from Houghton Park during the month of October! If you don’t have a bike, walking is an option although bikers and walkers will not be kept together while getting to school.
Meet up at Houghton Park earliest at 6:50 and leaving at 7:00.
We are doing this because if you walk, bike, or carpool to school, it lessens air pollution and hopefully our actions will slow global warming.
Thank you for reading, biking and walking!
The Climate Committee. Contact Mitch Craib with Questions mcraib@maplerun.org
