Hey 6th graders. We've taken a long time off from blogging. You have two weeks to complete the next blog assignment. It is due the Wednesday after your break. That will be March 23. You just need to write one paragraph about something we do during the next two weeks. There will be some good events to write about. Please remember that I will be grading your sentence fluency in the paragraph. Thanks for writing.
matt
3/14/2011 10:58:59 am
It was so nice to see Sarah at the Sugar Shack. We got to eat real maple sap. Also, we hand drilled a hole in one maple tree and put in a tap. When we got back to the shack the class and I compared which syrup was better for you. The St. Johns was better for taste and health. At the end we had ice cream and maple syrup
Patrick
3/15/2011 08:09:11 am
Today we got to see Sarah again!!!! With her we got to go out to the sugar shack and vist the maple syrup farm. When we arrived she explained to us how to collect syrup from the trees and which ones to collect from. After going out in the woods and getting a real demonstration, we all got to have ice cream and syrup!!! Yummm!!! It was alot of fun and I hope we can go again!!!
Salma
3/18/2011 12:30:20 pm
On Monday we got to go maple syruping. We went to the sugar shack to meet Sarah. There was a St. Cloud Times reporter who was with us on the maple syrup farm!! That was really cool! When we reached the maple syrup farm Sarah told us some of her endless info about maple syruping. After that we got to choose a tree that was suitable for maple syruping. We also got to collect or rather race to maple sap buckets to collect maple sap icecles. Then Sarah took us to the sugar shack and told us about the maple syruping machine and the difference between natural and artificial maple syrup. But the most important thing I liked about maple syruping was that we got to eat ice cream with maple syrup on it! YUM!!!!!!!
Salma
3/18/2011 12:32:45 pm
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Ella
3/19/2011 02:19:58 am
On Monday we went to the sugar shack with Sarah. We had such a great time! Sarah brought us outside and taught us how identify trees that could be used to make maple syrup. There were several trees, but Sarah said the best kind was the sugar maple. After that, we all ran around looking for "sapcicles". (Frozen sap) We returned to the sugar shack and Sarah told us how the sap was turned into maple syrup. But the best part was having the maple syrup on ice cream! I had such a fun time; I can't wait to go out again!
Ben
3/19/2011 07:21:52 am
My favorite thing we have done in the past few weeks is write My Quiet Place poem. I wrote about my bed and how it feels. It feels like velvet. I wrote about my stuffed animals and my pillow. We had to add similies, alitteration, personification, mediphors,and color details. I get to add my poem with two others to make a paper that will go in my final book. Making those poems were fun and entertaining for those who love writing stories.
Adam
3/19/2011 07:41:13 am
On Tuesday we went to the Sugar Shack. The walk was long. It seemed like hours until finally we reached the Sugar Shack. We met Sarah there and began our tour. We started in the sugar shack and talked about syrup and how it was made. Next we went outside and saw a tree being tapped. The sugar in the buckets/bags was all fozen. On the spouts there was a little sap, pick it off with your fingernail, eat it and you have a little maple sap that is all frozen. By the way, it tasted awesome! Last we went back inside and got maple syrup and icecream !Yummy!!! I had a lot of fun at the sugar shack!
Finn
3/22/2011 10:17:37 am
My favorite thing we have done is definitely maple syruping. We got to go on another fun adventure with Sarah once again! One of the activities that we did was learn how to identify a sugar maple.(The best for maple syruping.) You have to look for a blackish fungus on it which is one of the many ways to identify a sugar maple. Another thing that we did was tap a maple tree. To drill the hole, we used a hand drill bu they usually use and electric cordless drill. Lastly, we got to eat ice cream with maple syrup. Delicious! That was one of my favorite experiences in the past few weeks.
Risa Fines
3/22/2011 10:47:06 am
The plate tectonics activity we did on Tuesday was exiting and fun. Gwyneth's mom came and taught us about plate tectonics. We spread orange frosting that represented magma over a sheet of something ( I do not know what it is called) and put two fruit roll ups on our frosting-magma. They represented two ocean plates. I pushed them together and frosting-magma oozed out of the place where they met. One ocean plate was taken away (to eat) and a graham cracker (land) in its place. When we slid the ocean and the graham cracker together, the graham cracker slid over the ocean. After that we took away the remaining ocean plate. We dipped another land plate in water for a few seconds and pushed it against the land plate. It made a lumpy series of big bumps in the middle to represent a mountain chain. When the experiment was done, my hands were messy. I learned a lot from this tasty experiment.
Lorine
3/23/2011 02:18:22 am
Last Monday our class got bundled up and walked to the sugar shack. Sarah was waiting for us patiently to teach us about St. Johns maple syrup. We learned many things and got to do many activities such as: going outside and making a hole in a tree for sap to come out of,tasting the sap our selves from the tree, and having the final product with some nice vanilla ice cream.In just a couple of hours we learned more things than we ever knew. Thank you Sarah.
kyra
3/23/2011 06:13:47 am
The science project on plate tectonics was so much fun. Gwyenth's Mom did a fabulous job of demonstrating the point.She really showed how the continents shifted and moved.Also how the lithosphere helped in the formation of moutains.I learned that it helps move them around in it penutbuttery like substance. It was alot more fun then the text book.Getting to eat the project was the best part.Only because it was demonstrated with fruit rollups, gramcrackers, and orange frosting.
Alex Karl Friedrich Math
3/23/2011 01:37:50 pm
Hello everybody. My favorite activity was when we went to the Sugar Shack. We all got to get hyped up off ice cream and maple syrup, Mmmmmm. Sarah showed us how to place a bag on the trees and where we should put the bags, for the sap of course. I was so excited to watch the St. Johns Maple Syrup to form and how much time it takes. I can't wait until all this annoying snow is gone and we get to go back. After being outside for awhile we got to search for frozen sap-cicles. I struggled to travel through the snow without falling flat on my face. In the end it was worth it because i got 7 sap-cicles. I had to share some of course, i can't leave people without a taste of those sap-cicles so i gave 5 of mine away. I can not wait to go there again and collect some sap. Oh, Sarah thanks for the Maple Syrup and Ice Cream.
Lilly
3/24/2011 10:59:41 am
My blog takes place on a Monday when we went maple syruping. To start off we had to walk to the sugar shack. The weather wasn't too cold, but it also wasn't warm either. Once we got there we were all very happy to see Sarah. A St. Cloud Times reporter met us there to watch us experience maple syruping and learn how to turn sap into syrup. First Sarah taught us what trees to get sap from and what tree has more sugar. To legally be called maple syrup in MN, the syrup had to contain at least 67 percent of sugar. Before our class even knew it, we were already outside looking for a tree that would contain the right type of sap. Sarah told us that the maple tree needs to be 12 inches wide to be allowed to drill a hole inside it. She also said that if the tree was 18 inches wide you could drill 2 holes in the tree. So we began to drill a hole in a tree. Once the hole was big enough, we began to tap the tree. Since the weather was too cold, we couldn't see the sap come out of the tree because it was frozen. Our 'teacher', Sarah told us that the sap we take out of a tree is only 1 percent of the actual sap in the tree. Once the learning part of our trip was over Sarah let us run around to trees to look for sap-cicles. For our final event we got to have ice cream with syrup back in the sugar shack as a treat. This event will definitely be something that I will always remember from my 6th grade year, so far.
Maeve
3/27/2011 09:58:10 am
The plate tectonics project was both fun and delicious. Orange-colored frosting represented the athenosphere, while fruit roll-ups stood for oceanic plates, and ghram crackers for continental plates. First we put two oceanic plates on the athenosphere and pushed them together to show how the magma can bubble up out of the mantle. Next the class took off a fruit roll-up and ate it, and put on a ghram cracker. To show how a continental plate will cover an oceanic plate, we pushed the ghram cracker and the fruit roll-up together, causing the ghram craker to cover the fruit roll-up. After that we took off the other fruit roll-up. A bowl of water had been placed out for the class to dip the grahm crackers in. We took the wet sides of the grahm crackers and pushed them together. The sides rose, representing how mountains are formed. Last but not least we ate the athenosphere and plates! All the adults thought it was gross, but the kids enjoyed it. Comments are closed.
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