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Greetings from Mrs. Cave's Third
Graders at Bonny Kate Elementary School,
Bonny Kate Elementary
is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. We have about 420
students in grades Kindergarten through Fifth Grade. Our school was named
after Catherine Sherrill (Bonny Kate). She was the second wife of Tennessee's
first Governor, John Sevier. Go to: http://www.korrnet.org/bks/bkpoem2.html to
learn more about our school's namesake.
Our class has
participated in "The Bug Hunt", "100 E-Mail Exchange", "The
Valentine Exchange", "Backpack Buddies," and hosted a "Flat
Stanley" project.
Knoxville, Gateway to
the Smoky Mountains, is home to the University of
Tennessee Lady Vols Basketball Team (1997-98 National Champions) and UT Big
Orange Football (SEC 1998 National Champions).
Located in the
Tennessee River Valley, Knoxville has many areas lakes.
We'll soon get to visit one of these lakes when we go on our field trip to
Norris Dam on Norris Lake and the Museum of Appalachia. We'll learn about our
region's history and get to walk across Norris Dam.
Your friends,
Mrs. Cave Third Graders
Class Webpage: http://www.public.usit.net/llcave
Bonny Kate Elementary Webpage: http://www.korrnet.org/bks
Hello ! We are 7th and 8th graders
from Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle School
in Fort Myers, FL. The 7th grade class is 9 weeks of MultiMedia and 9
weeks of Introduction to TV. Next year, some of us will take TV Production, and
do a live, announcement program called Eagle Eye News. The 8th graders will
learn PowerPoint, HyperStudio, and do simple web pages. We have a strange
situition here, because 2 classes are starting the Landmark Game, and 2
different classes will finish it because our semester changed Jan. 15. We
are writing the introduction and deciding our Landmark and clues, but the
other classes will get to do the search !
Our school is about 1000 students, and has a Gifted Center of approximately
400 students. Our school has just had soon really great news - we are
getting a brand new building in 2 yrs. You can see it at our website:
http://www.lee.k12.fl.us/dun /prototype.htm
Unfortunately, we won+t be here to enjoy it - we+ll be in high school !
We take 4 academic classes and 3 exploratories. We have a great music
program. Many students take band, orchestra or Chorus. We have the only
middle school symphony in this part of Florida. Our intermural sports
program is lots of fun; we almost always make the playoffs !
Fort Myers is in southwest Florida, and is known for our sunny beaches. We
are also close to the Everglades. During the winter, we are known for
oranges, snowbirds (aka tourists), and manatees ! Sanibel and Captiva
Islands are just a short drive from here. Many famous and rich people visit
these islands during the winter. Willard Scott broadcast the TODAY SHOW
weather from there last week (Jan. 22,+99). (He has a home on the island.)
We also have a new hockey arena for a farm team called the Everblades. They
have been doing pretty good for their first year, except when players move
up. We also enjoy spring baseball. The Boston Red Soxs train at the other
end of our street, and the Minnesota Twins train out at the Lee Cty. Sports
complex. Students sometimes get out of school with their parents to go see
an afternoon game. (neat !)
We are sorry we won+t get to do the search (Mrs. Carlson says it is great
fun, and so do the kids who did the Capitols Game 198). Good luck to all !
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Dear Landmark Participants,
We have two classrooms in our school with two teachers and one aide. There
are 25 students in our school. All the students can walk to school because
our school is on the colony. A colony is a place where people live and
work together. We grow vegetables, wheat, barley, and canola. We also
raise beef cattle, dairy cows, pigs, chickens, and ducks. We live in north
central Montana just west of the Rocky Mountains.
Good luck in the game.
Kingsbury school
Grades 2-8
Valier, Montana
Greetings from C.W. Otto Middle
School. We are located in Lansing, the
capital of Michigan, at 42 degrees north and 84 degrees west. Otto is one
of four public middle schools in the city and we have a multicultural
enrollment of about 820 students. Magic Johnson and Stevie Wonder are both
former Lansing students!
We have participated in many social studies projects, as well as math and
language arts contests, through the Internet. We have also been involved
in many keypal projects. We have discovered new friends and resources all
over the world. We hope that you are having a great year! Good luck and
keep in touch!!!
Mrs. Johnson's class
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C.W. Otto Middle School
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Lansing, Michigan
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We are a class of 23 fifth graders
from Munhall Elementary School in
St. Charles, IL. There are 12 girls and 11 boys in the class. We have
already participated in the Through Our Eyes Project (TOE) this year on
the internet.
Our school has a population of about 550 kids from Kindergarten through
5th grade, and is one of ten elementary schools in St. Charles. St.
Charles also has three middle school and one high school. In two years,
we will have two high schools and one more elementary school. Our high
school is well known in this state for swimming and soccer.
St. Charles is about 30-40 miles west of Chicago. We are located along
the Fox River. The population is about 23,000 and growing.
We look forward to participating in this project. This is the third
year our teacher has had a class involved in the Landmark Game.
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Hello from Maplewood SPARK Center,
Sulphur, Louisiana.
Sulphur is located in the southwest corner of Louisiana. The population
is about 21,000 people. Our area is famous for outdoor and water
sports, Mardi Gras, Contraband Days and for having sulfur mines here in
the early 1900's. Many people here are of Acadian descent, but you
don't have to be Cajun to enjoy foods such as gumbo, jambalaya,
etouffee' and po-boys.
We attend Our Lady's School in Sulphur. On Tuesdays we go to Maplewood
Middle School to attend the SPARK Center. Our teacher there is Mrs.
Lisa Monteith. For more information about our class you can see our web
site http://204.80.173.250/~maplewd/12.06.96.html
We are looking forward to participating in the LandMark Game!
Tess, Kayla, Danielle, Lauren, Clay and Andre'
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In our class there are twenty-five students and this academic year is very difficult because we are in the 1st year of "Bachillerato" (non-compulsory secondaray education).
Our school, I.E.S. Cerdeņo, is quite big. Students come here when they are twelve and they stay until they are 18, or later (technical education). It is on the outskirts of Oviedo.
Oviedo is the capital of Asturias (in the North of Spain). It is a small city (200,000 inhabitants), but it is very beautiful. In Oviedo you can do a lot of things: you can go to many parks, you can visit museums, historical monuments…
January 13, 1999
Dear Landmark Participants,
We are third-graders from Hamilton Central School, the only school
in the village of Hamilton, N.Y. There are seventeen in our class and
we have named ourselves "Carter's Creative Crew."
The village of Hamilton, named for Alexander Hamilton, was founded
in 1795.
We'd like to share some of our local history with you.
Just after the village was established, one of our most colorful
families moved to the area. The Loomis gang actually lived in nearby
Smithfield and Waterville, but spent much of its time hiding out in Nind
Mile Swamp because their neighbors didn't care for cattle rustling and
horse stealing. They had quite a business in the early-to mid- 1800's.
Hamilton is a rural area which used to have a fair number of dairy
farms and hops orchards. Hops were a big cash crop from the 1830's to
the 1920's when a blight did in that business. One of the early dairy
farming families gave some land for a school called Hamilton Literary
and Theological Institute which was foun ded in 1819 and later became
Colgate University. Today the village numbers about 2000 residents but
when Colgate is in session, the village doubles in size.
A lot was going on in the 1800's in Hamilton besides cattle
rustling, hops growing, and the training of young men for the ministry.
A canal was built through the village (1833-1837) which fed into the
Erie Canal. The canal was is in steady use until about 1874 when the
railroad replaced it. just as the century was closing (1895) there was
a big fire that wiped out almost half the village. But everybody
pitched in and helped rebuild the burned out buildings.
Along came the twentieth century and the railroad gave Hamilton one
of its best Halloweens ever. In 1955 a switch got turned the wrong way
causing a train loaded with candy from Hershey, Pennsylvania, to derail
, spilling candy all over the place. Villagers who were here then say
that kids didn't need to go trick-or-treating that year. Everybody had
plenty of candy. Trains no longer run through Hamilton and there are
only a few places where old railroad ties can still be seen.
Well that's the village our school is in.
We're really happy to be playing this game with you.
Mrs. Carter's 3rd grade class from Hamilton, NY.
Hello to all Landmark participants.
Lee Intermediate School is located in Gainesville, TX, and is a 5th
and 6th grade campus with a current enrollment of 438 students. Our 5th
grade computer classes are participating in the Landmark game, and this
is our first on line project.
The town of Gainesville is located in the North Central part of
Texas, at the intersection of 2 major U.S. highways. I-35, runs North
and South and Hwy 82, runs East and West. We are 5 miles from the
Oklahoma border and about 75 miles north of Dallas. Our population is
approximately 14,200.
We are excited about our first attempt at an online project and hope
we will be able to participate in others.
Judy Turbeville and Lee Intermediate 5th grade classes.
Hello Landmarkers,
We are a 5th and 6th grade gifted class consisting of three girls
(5th graders)and two boys (6th graders). We live in the middle of the
Ozarks and are only an hour away from Branson, Missouri and we are very
close to Table Rock Lake. In fact our teacher has a houseboat on the lake
and loves going there in the summer. Purdy is a small town with a
population of around 900. The economy of the area revolves around farming
and the chicken industry. We are between two larger cities, Joplin and
Springfield. Our school is all physically connected and all grades share
the cafeteria and library. We have an elementary section-pre-school-5th
grade, a brand new middle school-6th-8th, and a high school section-9-12.
There are around 525 students in our entire system.
This is our first time to participate in the landmark game and we
are very exited about it.
Donna Patterson and the Purdy TAG class
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We are a 4th grade class. Our school
the Grey Nun Academy is a
PreK - 8th grade private school. We are located in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. This is in the Philadelphia suburbs. Students in our class
live in many different towns. Some may even come from New Jersey.
Our class has 26 students ( 11 boys and 15 girls). There are two
sets of twins ( a set of boys and a set of girls) in our class.
We are learning about the United States this year in Social
Studies. We are excited about being part of the Landmark Game.
4th Grade, Grey Nun Academy
Dear Worldwide Friends,
Hello! Family town, kind, and close knit are all words that describe the
small but big hearted town of Ashby. We are Mr. Hogan's energetic fifth
grade class at Ashby Elementary School in Ashby, Massachusetts, United
States of America.
We are having fun while learning our solar system, the countries of the
world, and other world related topics.
Our town has less than 3,000 people living in it, and the school that we
attend has approximately 333 students. We have a very active student
council, PTC, staff, and student body.
Our challenging teacher, Mr. Hogan, has made our minds work like well oiled
machines and we should make your minds work like that too when you receive
our clues.
Did you know that the Underground Railroad ran through the surrounding
towns of Ashby?
Some fun events in our town include: The Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony,
The Pumpkin Festival, and The Band Concerts in the Summer.
We wish you good luck in the contest.
Sincerely,
Ashby Elem. 5H
Hello - from the grade six
students in Lakeview Elementary School. We live
in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada which is in Souther Alberta. We are located
in the prairies of Canada. Our city is just over an hours distance by car
from the American border on the state of Montana. The population of our
city is about 66,000 people. Our winters are very cold and summers are
hot. Chinook winds in the winter melt our snow and warm it up some.
Our school consists of 356 students from kindergarten to grade six. We
have many clubs and activities at our school. We have a leadership group,
a photography club and many athletic activites held at noon or before or
after school.
We have 32 students in our class. 17 are boys and 15 are girls. Our age
group is 11 - 12 years old and our homeroom teacher is Mrs. Thaxter. We
also have an assistant named Mrs. Dechief. Our school has a homepage so if
you would like to know more about us this is the site address:
http://www.lethsd.ab.ca/lakeview/
We are excited about participating in this game and would like to wish
everyone good luck from Lakeview Elementary School.
Submitted by: Leanne, Nichole, Tanner and Matt
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Joanne Thaxter
Lakeview Elementary School
1129 Henderson Lake Blvd. South
Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3B6
PHONE: (403) 328-5454
FAX: (403) 320-1400
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Dear Landmark Game Participants:
Our school, Wickford Middle School, is participating in the
landmark game so we are sending a letter to inform you about our school and
our community. We are located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA.
We will start off by telling you about our community. North
Kingston is a coastal town with mixed forest vegetation. Our exact location
is 41oN and 71oW. Our state, Rhode Island, is on the east coat of the USA
in a region known as New England. We are the smallest of the 50 United
States. Because we are located along the coast we have many nice beaches in
our community and many people sail and fish for recreation. One bad thing
about living in a coastal community is that occasionally we are hit by
hurricanes. In 1938 a horrible hurricane hit RI and the water level was 10
feet higher than normal. There is a high water mark in Wickford Village,
the historic region of our town. Because of our latitude, we have four
seasons. Our summers are hot and humid and our winters are often cold and
snowy.
North Kingston is a suburb of Providence, the capital of RI
and is located about 20 miles from the capital. We are a growing community
of 25,000 people. North Kingston is a great community to live in. There are
many new housing developments. The streets are safe and everyone is helpful
and friendly. The town is also a great place to visit. In addition to our
many beautiful beaches another tourist attraction is the Gilbert Stuart
Birthplace, located in Saunderstown, a section of North Kingstown. Gilbert
Stuart was a famous American painter who is well known for his portrait of
George Washington. Another interesting place to visit is the Old
Narragansett Church found in the heart of historic Wickford Village. In is
one of the oldest Episcopal churches in the US.
One of the reasons North Kingston is such a great community to live
in is the annual festivals which are unique to our community. One of these,
the Wickford Art festival is held each July. Artists from all over the
country, and even some from other countries, come to show and sell their
art. Thousands of people come to enjoy the excellent art. Each August our
town holds a Quohag Festival. A quohag is a shellfish which is found in the
waters off our coast. Many excellent foods such as chowders and clam cakes
can be made using the quohag. This festival is always a hit with lots of
great food and fun. Christmas is also a special time for our community.
Each December there is a Festival of Lights to begin the holiday season.
This year our community holiday festival was shown on Good Morning
America.
Now we will tell you a little bit about our school. There are
approximately 500 students in grades 6,7, and 8. We are organized into 5
teams. There are two 6th grade teams, one 7th, one 8th, and one mixed 7th
and 8th grade team. We are students on Team S, the team with both 7th and
8th graders. Our school colors are blue and white and our mascot is the
wildcat. We have a 7 period day with 5 academic subjects (math, science,
social studies, language arts, foreign language or reading) and two
specials (music, art, shop, home economics, phys ed etc) each day. Our
school has many extra curricular activities. These include yearbook,
chorus, band, student council and the newspaper. Students also have the
opportunity to participate in a number of sports; these include softball,
cross country, basketball, and baseball. There is something for everyone at
Wickford Middle School!
We are excited to be participating in the Landmark Game and are
looking forward to learning about your school and community. Good luck in
the game!
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World Geography Wickford
Middle School
Grade 7 & 8 North
Kingstown RI 02852
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Dear Players,
Aloha and Happy New Year! We are the fifth grade students in the
Gifted and Talented (GT) Technology Class, from Kahala Elementary School
in Honolulu, Hawaii. Our names are Christine, Hisami, Jaclyn, Jonathan,
Kevin W., Alexander, Jennifer, Tonia, Amelia, Kitri, and Kevin U. In our
GT class, we learn about computers and other tools of technology.
Kahala School is located in Waialae- Kahala, a suburb of Honolulu,
on the island of Oahu. We have great teachers who are really fun and
friendly. One of them is Ms. Sahara, our technology program teacher. If
you would like to visit our school's web page, our URL is:
http://165.248.64.219/Kahala/
Kahala is a quiet, safe neighborhood, near beaches and parks.
Some of the activities we do in our neighborhood are: bike riding,
swimming, boogie boarding, fishing, picnicking, and playing ball games at
the park. It is also convenient if you want to go to the mall.
Our class is pleased to have this opportunity to play the
Landmarks game with you. We hope you will be able to identify the
landmark that we choose. Our class hopes that this game will be
challenging, but fun. Have fun and good luck!
Sincerely,
Grade 5
GT Technology Class
Kahala Elementary School
Aloha,
Violet Sahara
Landmark Introduction:
Hi ...we are a grade six class at Prince Charles Public School in London,
Ontario, Canada. Since our school was build when Prince Charles was born those
of you who follow the Royal Family should be able to figure out how old our
school is. We have a population of around 660 students and grades Kindergarten
to grade 8. We have 27 classes in our school and four portables, plus a number
of classes for special needs students. We have one computer lab of 30 computers
and then 6-7 in our technical class, 10 in the library and stand-alones in many
classes. We have 6 computers in our class.
Our school logo is a Knight Charger. Our school has a great band and they got
to play at the new Skydome in Toronto. We do a lot of sports around our school.
At this time of year we do snowshoeing and skating outside and basketball and
volleyball in our gym.
Our school is in London, Ontario. London is in south-western Ontario
....between Detroit (in the USA) and our capital, Toronto. We are famous for
our Western University and it's University Hospital. If you like Kelloggs
cereal, that next box of corn flakes might have been made here in London.
Although our teacher has done many internet projects with his other classes,
this is the first time we are doing the Landmark Game. We are all really
looking forward to seeing how everything works and how this game will work out.
We also hope to get to know lots of other students in other countries.
See you at all your different landmarks.
Grade 6 at Prince Charles
Teacher: Mr. Cliff Kroeker
ckroeker@execulink.com
Hi participants
IES Parc de l'Escorxador is a public secondary school in Barcelona. Our
school is quite big. We are 760 student, from 12 to 18. We are the lucky
ones participating in the game. We are a group of 16 students from grade 9.
We are in a class of English doing a Virtual English Course by computer. We
also use CDRoms.
Barcelona is a great city. It's a place which is visited by many tourists
and so we can practice our English.
Barcelona, Tarragona, Lleida and Girona belong to Catalunya. Catalunya is in
the north east of Spain and we are 6 million people. We have two languages:
Catalan and Spanish. We usually use both and we study both also. Barcelona
is the capital of Catalunya.
Barcelona is a coastal city surrounded by mountains. It has a beautiful
gothic cathedral and a lot of modernist buildings and monuments. It's full
of romanic art and gothic.
We have famous painters and artists: Gaudi, Dali, Tapies, Miro, and many others.
We think it will be very difficult to guess all the clues. We are too many...
Good luck and see you soon
3rC d'ESO
IES Parc de l'Escorxador
Barcelona
Hello from Haynes Bridge Middle
School. We are a middle school
located in Alpharetta, Georgia. Alpharetta is a suburb north of Atlanta
with a population of 21,500. Our capital city, Atlanta, is located in
north central Georgia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Atlanta has been ranked 13th largest metropolitan city in the United
States. Atlanta is famous for many things, but, one of the most important
is that it was the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics. In addition to
numerous site seeing attractions, it is also home to the Atlanta Braves
baseball team and the Atlanta Falcons football team. Several institutes of
higher education also call Atlanta home; Georgia Tech & Georgia State
University. Some famous Georgians include former President Jimmy Carter,
Martin Luther King, Jr., Newt Gingrich, Jackie Robinson, and Margaret
Mitchell.
Our school has about 1050 students in grades 6 - 8. We are a class
of 20, 8th graders. We are excited about having the opportunity to
participate in this game. Good luck with the puzzles and have a great
year!
Hello from Hahn Intermediate School!
We're a team of 93 sixth graders
who are participating in the Landmark Project in our Social Studies
Class.
Hahn School is a 5-6th grade building of 675 students located in
Davison, Michigan, a suburb of Flint. Our school is new this year, and
we feel fortunate to have all the latest technology in a beautiful
facility. You can learn more about Davison schools by visiting our web
site at www.davison.k12.mi.us.
We're excited about this project and anxious to start our research.
Good luck to everyone!
We are a team of 7th graders from
Agassiz Middle School located in Fargo,
North Dakota. Our school is 6th and 7th grade and we have about 1200
students. We are a Middle School arranged into 10 teams. Our teams are all
tigers and we are the Manchurians.
The teachers here are very nice and helpful. They help us learn while
we
are having fun. Agassiz offers many classes as well as extra curricular
activities.
This three story brick building for south Fargo students has been
around
since 1935. Since 1935 Agassiz has been helping students achieve their
goals. Agassiz is a great place to learn. (Written by Anna and Pebbles).
The name of our school is the Kent
Learning Center. Our location is Des
Moines, Washington, USA. Our school is one of the smaller in our area.
We have about 180 students. We range anywhere between 3 and 12 grade.
Our team is in Junior High, we range in the grades of 7th and 8th there
are five of us on the team. Three girls and one boy in 8th and one boy
in 7th. Our names are Sharon Kibbie, Sarah Ollmann, Wesley Smith, Ben
Jack and Chandler M.
The weather in western Washington is mostly rain. It is usually too warm
to get snow, and too cold to get much sunshine. But one second you look
outside and the sun is shining so you go to put on some shorts and when
you get outside its pouring raining. What a place.
Sharon Kibbie, Wesley Smith, Sarah Ollmann, Ben Jack,
and Chandler M.
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Kent Learning Center Landmark team
klclandmark@hotmail.com
Kent Learning Center
http://www.halcyon.com/maywood/
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Hi from Lone Rock School
There are 20 kids in our class. We do math, science, social studies, computers, library,
spelling, reading, PE, Daily Oral Language, and we write reports but our favorite game is
dodgeball in PE. We are located in Stevensville, MT . We have a very active community with
lots of festivals and fun. It is a great place. We are located between two big cities;
Missoula and Hamilton. We are about 125 miles from the capital of Helena and about 275
from Billings the largest city. We are almost on the Idaho border. There are 9 colleges in
the state of Montana. Montana is the 4th largest state in the USA. We all look forward to
playing Landmark Clues. If this is as good as Capital clues we can't wait to start. This
is only the 2nd time we have played a game like this so we are very excited!
Dear Landmark Partners,
Hello from Georgetown, Texas at 30 N and 97.5 W. Here are a few words about
our town and school.
WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT GEORGETOWN!!!
Georgetown is a great place to live in . We have a cool park and a
playscape,and a swimming pool . Our town has about 28,000 people . You
would love living here, it is just wonderful . The weather here is great
. We have a stadium, and football feild, and our own team called the
Eagles, they are good . We couldn't describe how wonderful Georgetown is
. You would have to come here to believe us .
We have the oldest school in town, it is seventy-seven years old
. Our school is called Williams Elementry . Our school is so old that
they are making everyone go to a different school . It's called Cooper.
We are by the Gulf of Mexico. We are also by New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas . Wow thats alot!
We get alot of food that everyone enjoys here in Texas.We get
pizza, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, baked patatoes, and more much more .
In Texas we have Blue Bonnets they're flowers . We have lakes, a
blue hole, and rivers . We have a beach called Corpus Christi . Have you
ever been there? If you have you would have been really close to
Georgetown .
Georgetown doesn't get very cold here in the fall and winter. How
cold does it get in where you live? It is winter here .
Today it is probaly going to
get in the 70's . Well got to go .
>From Rachael, Danielle, and Dulce
in Mr. Smith's 5th Grade
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Mr. Terry Smith 5th
Grade Teacher
Williams Elementary School Georgetown, Texas
www.gtwn-sqr.com/tksmith
tksmith@igg-tx.net
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Our School
Nimitz Elementary School is named after Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
Our school first opened its doors in 1954. Our current enrollment is seven
hundred eighty five students in Grade Kindergarten through Six. Ninety
percent of the students have parents serving in the United States armed
forces. The school's colors are yellow and blue and the mascost is the
eagle. This school year Nimitz School was named one of three Blue Ribbon
Schools in the state of Hawaii.
Some of the student activities include, Student Council, Malihini
Greeters,JPOs, and Peer Mediators. The Student Council plans money making,
educational and fun activites for the students. The JPOs help student
cross the streets safely. The Peer Mediators help students solve their
differences. The Malihini Greeters welcome new students to our school and
escort them to their classrooms. Because of military deployment, Nimitz
School enrolls and releases new students continuously throughout the year.
Our Class
Our teacher is Mrs. Kaneshiro. We have 22 students in our class. Most
of
us are not from Hawaii. We are from many different states and are here
because our father or mother has been assigned to a military base here.
Our stay is about four years.
Some ofthe sixth grade activities we will experience are, Sixth
Grade camp, punch card system,and Kaneshiro Town. In March, we will be
going on a three day, two night stay at Camp Erdman where we will
participate in Outdoor Education and Cooperative teaming projects. The
punch card system rewards students for doing their work and good behavior. Kaneshiro Town
is a project where we learn to balance a personal checking account and get
paid for doing our homework and for good behavior. With all of this
practice, we should be able to manage our finances in the future.
Our Community
Most of the students in our school live on either Hickam Air Force Base or
Aliamanu Military Reservation (AMR). Both Nimitz School and Hickam Air
Force Base are located right next to the Honolulu International Airport.
Please come and visit us here at Nimitz School when you arrive at the
Honolulu International Airport. Some of the students come to our school
while they live at the hotels nearthe airport as they await assignment to base housing.
This is why we are called the "hotel" school.
Grade 6 Room 208
Nimitz School
Honolulu, HI 96819
email: grm20221
My apologies if you receive this
twice. I received an error
message--possibly because I sent it from home the first time???
Whatever the problem, now it's coming from school address.
I first sent this introduction from my home computer because we had
been home for the 7th day of the 10 since Christmas break. Our school
missed Dec. 22, Jan. 4-6, 8, 11, and the 14th. We finally made it on
Friday the 15th. We've had a mixture of snow and ice. Last night's ice
made the roads simply treacherous--many cars off the road in ditches,
many accidents. I hope not too many injuries. I asked my students to
give me some information to put in the introductory letter.
Now for a little about our school and our community. We are a 6, 7, 8
middle school in Vincennes, Indiana, a town of about 20,000 on the
Wabash River which forms part of the southwestern border of our state.
There are about 800 students at CMS. Our school is named for George
Rogers Clark,an American soldier and frontiersman. The comedian Red
Skelton called Vincennes his hometown.
A G/T class of 23 students (9B, 14G) will be doing most of the work on
this game, but another 100 students will be watching and helping if they
can. We are all part of the Tribe Team. There is another 6th grade
team known as the Clark Bars. This is the second year that Mrs. Mize's
classes have participated in the Landmark Game.
We want you to know that basketball is very popular in this area. Our
sports mascot is unusual. We are called the "Alices." That may seem
unusual, but our fans are very loyal to the name (and the teams).
There is also a Junior College in Vincennes called Vincennes University.
The Trailblazers are always well know in JC sports.
Many people in this area root for IU (Indiana University), but Mrs. Mize
is a Boilermaker fan. Do you know the name of the school where the
boilermakers play?
We are looking forward to asking questions and solving clues.
3rd Period English
Mrs. Mize, Teacher
School email: mizel@vcsc.k12.in.us
Hello,
We are 3 fourth grade classes at Naumann Elementary. Naumann is in Cedar
Park, TX (near Austin). Our school is PPCD - 5th grade. Most grades have 6
classes (PPCD has 2 and 5th has 3). We are in the Leander Independent
School District in Williamson County. Our county is one of the fastest
growing counties in the US! We look forward to participating in this
project! None of our 3 classes has done this before.
Sherry Hallisye
LeAnn Moody
Terri Hall
Dear Participants,
We are a sixth grade Social Studies class of Sacred Heart of Jesus
School from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We are learning about Ancient
Civilizations this year. We look forward to the challenge.
Our school is a private elementary school with classes K-8 and an
enrollment of 425. We are in the heart of Dutch country with many
tourist attractions concerning the Amish. We are approximately 15 miles
east of the Susquehanna River. Please excuse the lateness of our
introduction. We have not been in school since the 13th due to snow and
ice.
6th grade class
and teachers Jessica Drago and Amy Huber
We are sorry that this letter is so
late but we had a snow day on
January 15, 1999.
Hi! We are in fifth grade at the Hardy School in Mrs. Siegel’s
class.
Each day in our class always turns out to be a new experience. This is
because we learn new and exciting things each day. For example, when
we were learning about the three branches of the U.S. government, we
made a mobile. It was a really fun activity. Our teacher, Mrs. Siegel,
makes everything fun.
One of the fun activities we do in class is called computer centers.
The things we do in computer centers include playing educational games
and supervised Internet use. Our class also uses AlphaSmarts.
AlphaSmarts are portable word processors. We are allowed to take them
home and do homework. This helps our class develop creative writing
skills. Each day our class has a maximum of 2 hours of homework. Most
of the time our class is not assigned homework on weekends.
Math and Science lead to fun activities. For example, we play card
games to help us learn math facts. Some fun things we do in science
include the study of air pressure and flight. In this unit we make
paper flying objects.
Our teacher gives us lots of responsibility and has high expectations
for us to meet. Mrs. Siegel encourages us to try our best and helps us
with things that we do not understand. If everyone had a teacher like
Mrs. Siegel, people would love fifth grade as much as we do.
In Hardy School we all dress in different styles. First of all we do
not wear uniforms to school. Usually the girls wear overalls, bell
bottom jeans, sweaters, running suits, and skirts. Boys also wear long
pants, sweat suits, sweaters, and dress shirts. Lots of kids dress in
brand names like Nike, Adidas, and Reebok.
At our school we have a choice of buying or bringing our lunch. The
most popular foods are pizza, chicken nuggets, salads, hamburgers, hot
dogs and pasta. If we choose to bring lunch, we mostly bring
sandwiches. Lunch costs $1.50 regular milk $.30, and chocolate $.35.
There are also a lot of snacks to choose from.
At our schools we have some rules. Some are we are not allowed to
fight. In winter we have to wear coats outside at recess. There is no
running in the halls or building. These are the rules we have to
follow.
We have a lot of activities in and out of school. Some of us are very
athletic. Some of the sports and games that we play are tag, baseball,
truth or dare, hockey, run the bases,soccer,kickball,and rolivio. Also
some board games that we like are Scrabble, Shogi, Chess, and Checkers.
Some of our other interests are reading books. Most kids only watch
t.v.to see major sporting events and nature and animal shows. We like to
play video games. Some of them are Spyro the Dragon for Sony Play
Station and NHL 99 for N64. A lot of us like to write and all of us like
to read.
In Arlington you can receive a good education. We have 7 elementary
schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school. Every elementary school
has k-5 grades and the middle school has grades 6-8. All schools have
a PTO who gives money for enrichment programs and field trips. Most
schools have a lunch hour of about 30 minutes. At our lunch time we
have 15 minutes of eating and 15 minutes of recess. We have really
good teachers at all our schools.
In this section of the letter, we are going to tell you about
certain people, special places, special events/days , some history, and
what we think about Arlington.
First, we are going to talk about Town Day. Town Day takes place
in September, usually a week or so after going back to school from
summer vacation. On the eve of Town Day, which is Friday night, there
is a big cookout at the Arlington Boys and Girls Club. There are also
neighborhood gatherings, especially when it is time for the fireworks.
During the day of Town Day (which is Saturday), there are booths set up
in Arlington Center. These booths include food, games, crafts, gifts to
purchase, raffles, demonstrations/information, and there is also a
section set up where you can go on some rides. There is also
entertainment. The High School Band plays, there are dance groups that
perform, and you can see aerobics and jazzercize demonstrations.
Another big event in Arlington is Patriot’s Day. Very early there
is usually a reenactment of when the Minutemen and British fight. In
mid-day there is a big parade.
We have a lot of history in Arlington. In Arlington we have a lot
of old houses including The Jason Russell, and The Jefferson Cutter
House. We also have a monument of Uncle Sam. He was born in
Arlington. Arlington used to be a town called Menotomy which was used
for farming. Because of Arlington’s rich soil, a lot of immigrants
moved here.
Arlington is pretty much like a regular town. It has libraries,
stores,schools, and acess to sports. Arlington’s surrounding towns are
Belmont, Lexington, Somerville, Cambridge, and Medford. This is what
Arlington is like. We think it is a wonderful place to live.
We hope you enjoyed reading about our class and community. We look
forward to this contest.
Mrs. Siegel’s Fifth Grade Class
Letter of Introduction
Rock Hall Middle School's sixth grade will be
participating in the Landmarks
project.The sixth grade of Rock Hall Middle School is made up of the 39
students. We have two classes. Mrs. Ahrens is the homeroom teacher of 6A and
Mr. Hynson is the homeroom teacher for 6B. Rock Hall Middle is one of three
middle schools in Kent County Maryland. Rock Hall is located on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland. We can stand in several of our classrooms and see the
Chesapeake Bay. Rock Hall has changed from a once active fishing community to
an active tourist spot. Our community is two hours from Washington, D.C. and
Philadelphia, PA and one and a half hours from Baltimore by car. By boat we
are 20 minutes from Baltimore.
Hello! Sorry to be so late. We
are 7th graders at Stephen Decatur
Middle School in Berlin, MD We are located at 38 degrees north latitude
and 75 degrees west longitude. Our mailing address is 9815 Seahawk Rd.,
Berlin, MD 21811. We are approximately 10 miles west of Ocean City,
MD.
Our school is brand new. It just opened last year. There are now about
630 students in our 7th and 8th grades. Our classes include ILA
(Integrated Language Arts), Math, Social Studies, and Science. We
rotate through an assortment of Special classes such as: gym, home
arts, visual arts, chorus, band, and exploratory foreign languages.
Most of us ride school buses from nearby areas. This is a rural farming
area. We go to school from 7:45am until 2:45pm.
We have enjoyed reading your letters of introduction from so many
places. As part of our geography class, we will participate in the
Landmark Game. Good luck to all!
Greetings from the Ocean State:
Our class at Narragansett Elementary School has 25 students with
one teacher,Elaine Stedman,and a student teacher. In our town we have one
elementary school with 798 students in grades K-4, a middle school with
grades5-8,and a high school with grades9-12. The three schools are all
within a mile of each other. In our class we have been studying Weather
and and Colonial Times. We have been online following the Brazil
Expedition.
Rhode Island ,one of the New England states,is the smallest state
in the USA. It is 48 miles from north to south and 37 miles from east to
west with an area of 1,214 square miles. RI , one of the original 13
Colonies,was settled by religious refugees,.It is the site of the first
Baptist church, the first Jewish synagogue, and one of the first Quaker
meetinghouses.
RI is the second most densely populated state ,with our most
important industries being, health care, tourism and jewelry manufacturing.
Our forty miles of ocean coastline bring many tourists to our beaches in
the summer. Our school is less than one mile from the Atlantic Ocean.
Because of our proximity to the ocean we have a mild climate. Our average
temperature in the winter is 30.degrees F and in the summer our average
temp is 70 degreesF. We usually have about 44 inches of precipitation but
last winter we had about 100 inches of snow.
We are looking forward to participating in the Landmark Game.
From, Elaine Stedman's 4th grade class
Elaine Stedman
Narragansett Elemen.
Narragansett,RI02882
H.K.I.S. Middle School
Hong Kong International School consists of people from many places
around the world. Students at H.K.I.S. learn to cooperate and accept
each other because of all the different races and cultures. Our school's
Student Advisory Council is made up of Chinese kids, American kids,
Indian kids, and more. Even though there are so many different
nationalities at our school, it is an American system school. Our school
is a Lutheran school, and every week we have an all middle school chapel.
We have eight homeroom classes for every grade, and the teachers
here are really cool. There are around 23 kids in every class. Every
day we go to eight classes. Math, science, social studies (geography)
Language Arts (English) modern language (with a selection between
Chinese, French, or Spanish) Music (either choir, band, or bach-to-rock)
one day, P.E. the other, Religion, Spices, which is either art, drama,
health/lifeskills, or computers. We also have a wide variety of after
school activities, such as rugby, soccer, field hockey, basketball, drama
club, Chinese, French, and Spanish club, chess club, swim team, homework
club, allegreto/bass, jazz band, dance, and more. H.K.I.S. Middle School
also has, every once in a while, intermurals, which play a variety of
sports every so often after school, one homeroom class against another.
H.K.I.S. Middle School is pretty cool when it comes to friends and
people cooperating. It seems like most everyone gets along fine and
there are really no enemies. And the kids get along pretty great with
the teachers too. We can hang out with our friends after school in the
cafeteria, or at the basketball courts in the amphitheater, or at the
bakery right outside of the high school, which is connected to the middle
school. We can also stay after for help n some work we don't get with
help from our teachers. There are three o clock buses for the kids that
go home right after school, four o clock buses for the kids that stay
after to just hang out or have a club, and five o clock buses for the
hockey, soccer, rugby, and swim team.
H.K.I.S. Middle School doesn't have uniforms, but we have a dress
code. We're not aloud to wear spaghetti straps, cutoffs, or any clothes
that show our underwear, and the guys aren't allowed to wear shirts that
advertise or say inappropriate things on them or pants/shorts that sag
too much. They aren't aloud to wear caps indoors either. We have P.E.
uniforms, though, that we're not supposed to wear out of P.E. class.
All in all, I think our school is pretty fun to go too. The kids
and teachers are great, and so is the way of teaching here!
By:
Jessica Pang*
