News Flash!

The Fourth Grades from Adams School are planning a field trip to Yellowstone National Park on Thur, Sep 22! Why?

Still to come this school year, our fourth grade classes will study geothermal energy especially in relation to volcanoes and geysers and their ecosystems. We also study the effects of the Fires of ‘88 in our reading curriculum.

Our field trip is planned to take us to Old Faithful Geyser, and hopefully we will see elk and other species of wildlife that make up the natural prey of the various packs of Yellowstone wolves.

Our route will also cross the Trail of the Flight of the Nez Perce which will be also studied in depth in Idaho History during the fourth grade.

We will learn that one of the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, John Colter, was one of the early explorers of the Yellowstone area.

Our intent and purpose of visiting Yellowstone Park is to begin the school year with first hand experience these concepts and curriculum we will study.

We will need to bring sack lunches that day. If your student needs to order a sack lunch from school lunch please indicate below.

For your child's safety and comfort, long pants should be worn as well as sturdy shoes or boots (no sandals or open toed shoes). A sack lunch is needed. If at all possible, send a water bottle with your child as there is no water available. A jacket or sweater will be helpful if the wind comes up --- or heaven forbid! A snowstorm! It could happen.

So excited! I love Yellowstone!

One Week Down!

It's Wednesday, Aug. 31 . . . and we've been in school a week now. Well, depending on how you count but that's a discussion we'll save for a rainy day.

The weather here in Rexburg has been hot and boring but hot and boring is okay! No hurricanes, or flash floods. No evacuations. Just get up and go to school. We like it like that!

Back to School Night is tomorrow, Thurs, September 1st starting at 7:00 pm.

In today's math lesson we learned/reviewed ordinal numbers -- the "first" in September. We are reading about the Iditarod Sled Dog Race in reading and the official symbols of Idaho in Idaho History.