Great drawings, Eli and Cordell!
December 14, 2011
Learning Quileute Vocabulary with à, á, and a
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November 30, 2011
November 11, 2011
Veterans Day 2011
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Thanks to our resident artist, Keith Penn, for rendering the eagle of the Great Seal of the United States with native design elements. The kids then did a great job at transferring Keith's eagle to place mats for the Veterans Day breakfast.
We were honored by 18 members of the five military branches of the United States, and we thank all Americans all over the world risking their lives to defend and protect the United States of America.
November 2, 2011
Pacific Science Center visit
The class was able to touch their first brain today. We're not sure if it was male or female, but we know it was average size and weight (about three pounds).
The alternate reality (googly-eye) goggles were fun, but their unbalancing effect was incongruous with balance balls. Thanks to Eli for demonstrating this difficulty while throwing a beanbag to his partner. He's okay, folks!
Our thanks go out to Alycia, the Magician, and the anonymous brain from the Pacific Science Center.
October 14, 2011
It's a Baby Girl.....'s Hat!
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The Quileute Classroom Alongside the River is proud to announce the addition of a beautiful new baby girl's HAT! It's our first!
Thanks to Dr. Rowena and Dr. Roseann.
AWESOME WORK, JULIA!!!!!!!
October 13, 2011
Halloween Decorations
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Halloween is the official favorite holiday of the Quileute Classroom Alongside the River.
October 10, 2011
Drying Indian Tea
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We definitely didn't get as much as last year... probably because we didn't have Eugene's mad fingers. The
last picture shows the drying from October 2010.September 30, 2011
What it Means to be Quileute
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When Middle School was asked "What It Means to be Quileute?" we decided that cleaning our classroom beach would be a productive, healthy, and necessary way of demonstrating pride in being Quileute and living in La Push. We wanted to actively make that connection, preserving marine resources and cultural links to the environment that has long sustained Northwest Coastal First Nations.
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary embraces one of the last relatively undeveloped coastlines in the United States. Within this coastline's intertidal zone-- the narrow belt lying between the highest and lowest of twice-daily tides-- are some of the biologically richest areas in North America. Here, scientists have identified over 300 resident species of aquatic plants, invertebrates (animals without backbones) and fish. It's thought that this number may be but a fraction of the species that actually inhabit this stretch of coast.
La Push is a beautiful place, and I'm proud that we honored that beauty by having to make two different dumpster deposits. With sore arms and sandy socks, we filled six garbage bags, including a really heavy, rusty, sand-clogged, old beach-chair. Can you see how heavy Eli's first bag is?
That means less broken glass on the beach, and a lot less plastic bags, styrofoam, and nurdles clogging digestive tracks of marine life. Good job, Quileute Classroom Alongside the River.
The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary was the nation's twelfth marine sanctuary designated by NOAA in 1994, with support from the four tribes of the Olympic Coast: the Quileute, the Hoh, the Makah, and the Quinalt. Check out more information about the OCNMS here.
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary embraces one of the last relatively undeveloped coastlines in the United States. Within this coastline's intertidal zone-- the narrow belt lying between the highest and lowest of twice-daily tides-- are some of the biologically richest areas in North America. Here, scientists have identified over 300 resident species of aquatic plants, invertebrates (animals without backbones) and fish. It's thought that this number may be but a fraction of the species that actually inhabit this stretch of coast.
La Push is a beautiful place, and I'm proud that we honored that beauty by having to make two different dumpster deposits. With sore arms and sandy socks, we filled six garbage bags, including a really heavy, rusty, sand-clogged, old beach-chair. Can you see how heavy Eli's first bag is?
That means less broken glass on the beach, and a lot less plastic bags, styrofoam, and nurdles clogging digestive tracks of marine life. Good job, Quileute Classroom Alongside the River.
The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary was the nation's twelfth marine sanctuary designated by NOAA in 1994, with support from the four tribes of the Olympic Coast: the Quileute, the Hoh, the Makah, and the Quinalt. Check out more information about the OCNMS here.
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