Who's your explorer?

Hello 501,

It is great to see so many of you using the computers to learn about science and social studies. You've had a few days to research about plants, animals and explorers. So about those explorers? Which explorer did you pick? What can you tell us about your explorer so far? How did your explorer impact North America? Sometimes when what we intend for good doesn't turn out that way, and sometimes what we intend for evil turns out to be good? Did either of these happen to your explorer? Talk to the blog and tell what you think and what you found out.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Smith and Mariah

Blogging on our site is much easier now!

Good Evening 501,

As I wait for you to come to conferences this evening, I thought I'd play around with our blog and make a few changes. Thanks to a suggestion made by Mr. Helleson, blogging here will be even better now. I'm excited to see what you have to say. What I'd like you to talk to me about first here on our blog is, what is one thing here at Lowell that you have been excited to do and why. I have to say that coming to work and teaching you each day is exciting for me. I think second quarter is going to be even better than first quarter!

Have a wonderful time blogging!

Your Teacher,

Mrs. Smith

Wow what a party!

Hi 501,

So what did you think of the Urban Garden Party on Saturday? Can you believe more than 500 people attended. I had such a good time. It was great to see so many happy faces and so many people having a good time celebrating our community. The Argus Leader wrote a nice piece about our celebration http://www.argusleader.com/article/20090920/NEWS/909200318. KSFY also reported about us: http://www.ksfy.com/news/local/59877082.html. I especially liked this picture (to the right) that the paper took of Nenubari. He was in my class last year. Who knew he was such an awesome dancer! What are your thoughts on these stories about Pettigrew Heights and the garden party?

Now that the garden harvesting has begun, has anyone tried any new recipes using food from the garden? I got some cucumbers the other day from my own garden, and we made a really yummy cucumber salad with yogurt sauce that night. Did any of you try Minnie's salsa? She had samples at the garden booth under the ten. I thought it pack a nice punch.

I hope we get permission to put the greenhouse up soon. Wouldn't it be neat to have lessons in there? Starting this week we are going to do a science unit on solar energy and the greenhouse has properties that we could study.

So tell me what you'd like to see happen with our garden and share any recipes that you like that uses foods from our garden.

I look forward to blogging with you!

Your Teacher,

Mrs. Smith

What are you up to this summer?

Hello future and past students of 501,

It seems like forever ago that I said "see you later" to the most recent 501 at Lowell MST. I don't know about you but I have plans this summer. As we speak I'm learning how to create cooler blogs than I did last year! WooHoo!

I'm attempting to garden, but my garden at my house isn't looking as good as the Urban Garden at school. Is anyone working in our garden The Growing Place this summer? Check out this story in a recent issue of the Argus Leader.

I want to read some good books. What books are you reading this summer? Got any recommendations for me?

Finally, I want to do some travelling. I'm going to Kentucky in a couple of weeks, and I might even go to Tennessee from there to check out a university that my daughter is thinking about attending in another year. Meanwhile, this week, my son Will is in the Tour de Kota, the 425 bike tour through most of South Dakota. Do you have any plans for this summer?

I hope I hear from some of you.

Happy Summer,

Mrs. Smith

Who's James Russell Lowell?

Did you know our school is named after an abolitionist poet? Really.

Click here to learn more about him.