Hello Leawood Lions, I am starting a blog page to introduce this to our parents and community to show how exciting this can be. Our sixth grade students started using a secure blog site on wikispaces last year (cocacolaclassroom) as a means to continue valuable conversations related to school outside of the classroom. I feel strongly that parents and families should be able to experince what a blog space (also known as web log) is and allow our community to participate in the same current trends that our students do.
This Blog site is an opportunity to post information, have an opinion, comment on things of interest, and really it is a way to collaborate on various topics through the internet. So for our first blog topic, I would love to hear about a fun summer experince from this past vacation. Remember that everyone can read this, so please be respectful to all readers when blogging on this page. To read all the blogs, click on the title link. To add a blog click on post a comment and follow the directions. Good luck and have fun!
My summer vacation was a family trip to Yellowstone National Park. We loaded up 3 kids and tons of gear and headed out. Our 10 hour road trip lasted a good 14 hours. With a 3 month old baby, we had plenty of stops and breaks that truly extended our drive. Once we were there, it made it all worth it. Yellowstone is an enormous and beautiful place. We were fortunate enough to see bears, elk, bison, bald eagles, and of course tons of other people. We spent some time in the town of West Yellowstone. This little town has so much character. Huckleberry is a poplular item and you can find, syrup, jam, and taffy all made from Huckleberry. In addition, when you go out for ice cream, the serving sizes are so large that all 5 of us were full off of one cone. Yellowstone was a fun trip for us and I would recommend this place to anyone.
