We've been up to a lot of digging lately. On Friday we wrapped up a story in language arts about the California Gold Rush on the mid 1800s and we found it only fitting to mine for chocolate chips. Thank you to grandmother extraordinaire, Mrs. Armstrong, for being our resident (spelling word this week) baker. Her chocolate chips cookies are infamous around these parts! Students were able to (on a very small scale) see the precision it takes to mine and what the earth looks like afterword. Their reclamation attempts were good, but many were too impatient and just wanted the goods (in other words, to gobble up their "gold").
Student Council sponsored a campus clean up day this weekend. Mr. Solz and some great grizzlies dug up some ground in order to plant red and white Camillas in honor of Mr. Gilchrist. They were his favorite plant and we are looking forward to watching them grow. Mr. Gilchrist was the first principal of our school in the 1960s when it was Timberlane Elementary School. In the 1970s the school's name was changed to honor him. He was a lifelong learner and great papa bear!
I dig this little guy!
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