Happy Tuesday! How’s your week going? Grandly, I hope. Today is my first day back from my spring vacation. My body is definitely here, and I’m hopeful that my brain arrives soon! 🙂 You know that feeling, right?
My vacation was fab! I slipped away to Key West for a few days with my best friend and her hubby. Since this was our first time in the Florida Keys, we packed our days with sightseeing, water excursions, art galleries, and shopping. We even took a few guided tours, one of which made me think of y’all. Why, you ask? Because the tour guide, who was absolutely awesome, is a former teacher! Makes sense doesn’t it? After all, teachers definitely know how to share information in fun and engaging ways!
Speaking of trips, check this out. At the Upper Grade Exchange, Todd is announcing a giveaway: “Field Trip Season—Share Your Story and Win!” That’s right! Share a field trip story of success (or fiasco!) by leaving it as a comment on the Upper Grades Exchange blog, and your name will be entered in a drawing for a free book from The Mailbox. Awesome!
Cheerfully,
Diane
While whaling is certainly a controversial subject around the world, I live in a community that hunts three bowhead whales per year as part of their subsistence life style.
This fall our entire K-12 school (63 kids) went to the beach during the school day to help in the butchering and serving. Our students listened to tales of the hunt, watched the elders sharpen tools, hooked and carried meat and blubber, worked with a scientist that took measurements, blood samples, and other data samples of the whale. The bowhead whale is one of the most studied baleen whale due to the wonderful relationship between scientists and whaling captains.
As a teacher it is was a field trip beyond compare.