Reminder:
This Wednesday, Dec. 7, please have your child come to school with their costume and props from our Fort Ross trip. If they made a box or bench as an artisan, please bring that to school as well.
No homework besides 30 minutes of reading.
Marine Mammal Center Field Trip
We couldn't have been more lucky with the weather for our trip to Marin today. At the Marine Mammal Center (MMC), students learned more about food chains, and in particular the local ocean food chain, acting out how toxins rise through the chain. The educators at the center told us about common ailments of wild marine mammals, like bacterial kidney infections and building up toxins that cause neurological problems, why plastics can be so harmful to them, how the MMC rescues and cares for animals, and what we can do to help. Following lunch and rousing games of Wells Fargo on Rodeo Beach, Cerrito and Strawberry classrooms hiked up the bluffs in the Marin Headlands.
Many, many thanks to our parent chaperones and driversElizabeth Carty, Don Cornejo, Madeleine Dunphy, Tara Jacquet, and Clare Woakes--you made it possible for our students to have a rich and fun learning experience!
