...The hike in Elyria Canyon was breathtaking. It was a beautiful spring day with a lot of trails to follow. The stand of Black Walnuts is one of the few remaining untouched Black Walnut stands in California. Elyriia Canyon Park is a 35 acre tract of land which was slated for housing development. The neighboring community worked with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to buy the land to preserve it for migrating birds and the natural inhabitants. Some views from the Park show how this park is nestled near dense population and yet it is large enough for one to feel a communion with nature. ...
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...At Sycamore Grove Park students participated in an experiment on seed germination. They wanted to see what soil was best for quick germination of California native plant seeds. Students collected dirt from Rainbow Canyon, and with three different commercially prepared potting soils planted the native seeds from our Camp Internet backpacks.....
... The Los Angeles River Center is located two blocks from our school. It was formerly the home of Lawrys corporate headquarters. It has a beautiful cluster of Spanish style adobe builldings, a fountain and landscaped gardens. The buildings and grounds have been preserved by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and now house a community technology education center, North East Trees and a small museum displaying the history of the Los Angeles River. The grounds also are home to River Garden Park, park-like setting with native plants and a waterway for community enjoyment. ...
The North East Trees is a community group which helped us find the points of interest at both Elyria and Rainbow Canyon. Mrs. Lynnette Kampe arranged for Mrs Spencer and Mrs Cohens classes to have a field guide and shovels to plant Walnut seeds in the earth. North East Trees is headquartered at the Los Angeles River Center.
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The River Center museum display informs visitors about the Los Angeles River watershed which collects from nearby mountains and arroyos, the natural flora and fauna, the 1938 LA River flood, and the development of the River for flood control. Local citizen groups are trying to restore the nearby Los Angeles River to a more natural state.
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....This field trip provided students the opportunity to explore their own community. The students learned about native plants, urban forests, human impact on the environment and community attempts to preserve the native habitats for migrating birds and other forms of wildlife.
Students took GPS readings of the locations of Black Walnut trees and recorded their data on pads. They had field guides and specific activities to accomplish at each location.
Students used digital video cameras and digital or film cameras to photo document their experiences. Others used sketchpads and colored pencils to draw the plants they encountered, some students made watercolor paintings. Some students collected butterflies with a net.
....Back in the classroom, students are pre-writing their field reports in Apple Works in preparation for uploading them. Students downloaded the digital video footage in iMovie and made stills. .They will then resize the images in Graphic Converter so they can be uploaded to the Internet and attached to their field reports. Soon they will edit the film of the field trip for Nightingale Middle Schools Showcase of Excellence.
..Students using cameras to photograph and document their experience are creating museum board displays of their learning experiences. Photographic images can be scanned in the classroom for students who wish to use their images for their on-line field reports.
...Los Angeles City Councilman Ed Reyes sponsored two buses for our students to attend this field trip. Students wrote thank you letters to the councilman for providing transportation to make our field trip possible. ...
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This experience helped the students learn how people working together can make a difference in their community and their environment. It also helped them to understand what their own community offers free of charge for enjoyment and educational activities.
Everytime we view the videotape from our field trip we are reminded how urban forests contribute to the quality of life in our urban Los Angeles neighborhoods. On February 20,2002 we went on a field trip. We are from Nightingale Middle School and went with our teachers Mrs. Cohen and Mrs. Mason. We went to 3 different locations: Elyria Canyon Park, Sycamore Park, and Los Angeles River Center and Gardens. When we first got to Elyria Canyon Park we tested the GPS locator and then we went to hike. While we were hiking we had to answer some questions that our teacher gave us. What we saw that was dangerous is a steep hill, muddy, and poison oak. We find an insect that was a bee and a moth. We took the moth back to our class and my teacher put it in the freezer after that she use the moth as a display on the wall. One of the poison thing that we could of got poison is the Poison Oak, once you touch it you will get a blister. But, lucky none of us got any blister from our class .
After that we went to Sycamore Park for lunch and some of our classmate planted some plants for an experiment. Finally, the last place we went was to the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens. What we did there was we walked around and saw the water fall. And the water fall looked really nice and some of my classmate took their shoes off and they walk in the water . The River Center is owned by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. 
They told me that they had to hike up Elyria Canyon, and they also told me that they ate at Sycamore Park.
The park that we went to after was Sycamore Park. There was a lot of big tall trees and there was a little playground and every one was playing freeze tag. There was a lot of squrrils and a lot of birds in the trees, in the center was a big stage and seats all around it. We ate our lunch there. Tables are there to eat on but mostly nobody used them, every one ate sitting in the grass. 
After that we went to have lunch in Sycamore Park right there we were suppose to GPS the different plants and trees and instead we play freeze tag. Its was cool because all of the students were playing together. Our next ride was to go to Los Angeles River Center. There Vicky and I went to the River Garden Park and Vicky took off her shoes and waded in the water. One guy named Lino threw a a live worm at her and Vicky got mad. My friend Miriam and I were taking pictures at the tree and plants we also took a picture of the students that went on the field trip. It was really fun. Then we walked back to school. 
Then we went back to the bus. Before we got on the bus, Mrs.Cohen had to sign the paper that we had pick ed up trash and put it in the bag. Then we went to Sycamore Grove Park in the bus. When we arrived there we had lunch. Then some teachers were doing experiments with plants. Our last place that we went is L.A. River Center. When we arrived there we look at those pictures that were on the wall. Then we had to go walking to school.
Ms. Mason and Mrs. Cohen class went to a field trip with their class on February 20, 2002 to Elyria Canyon, Sycamore Grove Park and L.A. River Center. We went because they wanted to show us that nature still live out side our home around us like all trees and animals. Nature is so beautiful they wanted us to see it. We were learning all the things in nature like Poison Oak plants, different flowers we saw in Elyria Canyon. On Sycamore Grove the class ate lunch planted beautiful plants which are going to be a big, different beautiful trees. On the L.A. River Center we looked around we were responsible for the decline of news and frogs in the river and many other species. We use the GPSto locate where we were. 
FIELD REPORT
Mrss Masons class went on a field trip.I did not go to the field trip because I was not in this class yet nor in this school. But I saw a movie on the field trip and I saw that people were having fun. I wish I couldve gone because I heard it was a lot of fun. In the movie I saw a river, flowers, trees, grass, and a lot of birds. 
Mrs. Rivera's Kindergarten's What We Did During Winter Field Report
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Winter seemed like a good time to write some class books. Inspired by a few questions and topics in the Meteorology unit digs we wrote the following four class books: What Makes A Rainbow?
Where Does Weather Come From?
What Is Meteorology?
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To the question What Makes A Rainbow?
The students answered: "A rainbow. You see it in the sky. The rainbow is the a guy is inside the rainbow and the girl see the guy and she get in the rainbow." Carlos
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"A rainbow? Falling down flowers" Jose
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Jesus make the colors of it." Ray
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"The sun makes orange back go to the rainbow. Trevor
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"Some kind of color glasses. The guy holds after the rain. Also colored bottles. When the rain stops to make a beautiful color rainbow." Nicole
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"The sky..they do colors first red, then orange, then yellow, then green, then blue, then purple." Johnson
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"Red,blue,pink,yellow,purple, brown, green, purple, orange and that I say orange already? Oh yes. I remember. And white
yes. " Silvia
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"The clouds." Tony
" I think water." Esai
"I don't know." Arturo
"A clouds, the sun." Byan
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"Colors." Selene
The sky. Abel
'It ,s goes jesus makes the colors and it comes out." Ray
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"The sky. Colors. " Savannah
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"Como se hace? No se como se hace. Viviana
"Por el agua." Yazmin
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"Que llueva hace un arcoiris. Martin
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"Que sean de colores. " Israel
"Se salen arriba cuando hace noche. " Eliezer
"Rainbow? When it rains, when it stops there is going to be a rainbow." Janelle
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To the question Where does Weather Come From?
This is what the kids answered:
"From Mexico" Carlos
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"It comes from the beach" Jose
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"From weather?, from the sky. Ray
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"I don't know." Trevor
"Weather comes from up in the sky." Nicole
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"Up in the sky." Johnson
"Weather come from? She come for somewhere. I don't know." Silvia
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"From the sky" Tony
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"I think they comes from when its raining and it stops raining. It comes like that. " Esai
"The sky. " Arturo
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""Outside. " Bryan
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"I don't know. The sky. " Selene
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"From the sky. " Ray
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"From the cay" abel
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"From the sky." Savannah
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"La lluvia vino. Viviana
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"Mexico. " Yazmin
"El agua? En la noche." Martin
"El agua." Israel
"Arriba." Eliezer
"I think it comes from the sky." Janelle
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To the question What Is Meteorology?
This is what the kids answered:
"Jam" Carlos
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"Metereology is a too hard it is below the rainbow and the monkey goes oo aaaa " Jose
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"Gee" Ray
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"Meterology is a truck, I think. " Trevor
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"Maybe science" Nicole
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" G is a letter." Johnson
""I forgot." Silvia
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"Me like me" Tony
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"What? I don't know. I think it will spell bat." Esai
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"It is science." Arturo
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"G" Bryan
"What is that?!" Selene
"Meteogeny? Abel
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"Ammm, Its
don't answer. Savannah
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"No se. " Viviana
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"How you spellit? Is a wind blows trash away. " Raymond
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"Un leon. " Yazmin
"Una casa. " Martin
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"Un pescado." Israel
" No se. Un perro. " Eliezer
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"I think it is math." Janelle
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To the question What Makes Wind Happen?
The students answered:
"The wind blow away so that people can go back" Carlos
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The wind fallen the leaf
leaf
leaf. The tree is fallen. " Jose
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"The sky. The weather makes wind." Ray
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"The wind happen. I think the clouds." Trevor
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"The clods up in the sky. The wind blows hard on the city." Nicole
"Wind
because wind
because. wind comes out in the sky." Johnson
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"This was happening is was a when the L we need help. Silvia
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"Blows things up." Tony
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"I think it stops when the sun comes out It warms the cold. The sun will make wind. Make it away." Esai
"Rain." Aturo
"Rainbow and clouds." Bryan
"Cold. " Selene
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"Del sol." Martin
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"Nada. " Yazmin
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"The trees make the wind and the leaves fall of of it." Ray
"Windy." Savannah
The tree make it spining. Abel
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""Dios lo hace." Viviana
"Se mete el agua en su casa." Israel
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"Vienen los esos negro y llueve. Eliezer
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When it snows the wind blows. " Janelle
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.A Volcano Book we made was inspired by the volcano dig
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..This winter we also began working on some seed packets for seeds that we collected from our garden and garden produce. We have pumpkin seeds, morning glory seeds, sweet pea seeds, sunflower seeds, radish seeds, and cosmos seeds
To make our seed packets, first we drew a picture of our plant (flower or vegetable) using the Paint program on the computer. Then we put our graphic in a template, make a heading, wrote relevant information on the packet copied from commercial seed packets, and then wrote our names so that everybody knows who designed the packet. We cut the templates out, glued them to form a pocket, and then we counted the number of seeds that went into each packet
This is what the seed packets look like 
The template for the packets looks like this: 
.If you want to find out more about making seed packets you can go to 
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..Bulbs that we planted in the fall are blooming now. This is a picture of one of our barrels. 
We recently harvested some radishes that we planted in a barrel outside our door. 
..As spring approaches we are weeding our garden plot to prepare the soil for planting 
