Our field trip to the Rexburg Cemetery was fantastic. Both Mrs. Hancock's and my class went, so there were a lot of kids in the cemetery this afternoon. First we visited the Thomas E Ricks Family Monument and calculated how old Mr Ricks lived to be. Then the students made rubbings of the designs they found on the headstones. Some of their favorites were four-wheelers, music notes, airplanes and baseball bats. Some had beautiful kanji (Japanese characters used in writing) on them. We noticed that the older gravestones were more plain and simple than the newer ones.
We are almost finished reading Brighty of the Grand Canyon. Even though the movie is old and doesn't follow the story line of the book very faithfully, the fourth graders are sure they want to watch it. I'll let you know what they thought of it.
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