April 16, 2013 The Thea Foss Waterway Seaport

The Thea Foss Waterway in Tacoma

  

Making our oil tankers

 

Loading up with oil

 

A huge wind storm causes our oil tankers to spill their oil. 

 

 Using a boom to clean up the spill

 

 Trying to swab up the spill

 

Detergent helps. But does it do more harm than good?

How long does it take a diaper to decompose? Fishing line? Glass?

Meeting the entrepreneurial Thea Foss on our scavenger hunt.

This ferry carried livestock

 

A very interesting pedal powered boat on display

 

Learning about the fresh/salt water estuary of Tacoma's Commencement Bay

 

Which is heavier, fresh or salt water?

 

Fresh water is less dense (one fist) so it is on top of salt water (two fists)

 

 Time to be creative and make our own boats

Learning about port and starboard

 The Foss Waterway Seaport!

 

       

    A beautifully remodeled building

 

     

A beautiful place to live and to take care of!

 

 

 

April 10, 2013 Beverly Cleary

The Navigators have been reading the wonderful literature of Beverly Cleary. We have especially become acquainted with  Ramona Quimby, Age 8, the character featured in the a play we attended at the Rialto Theater in downtown Tacoma. We enjoyed lunch, a game of foosball and hanging out with the big kids at the Middle School and then came back to the lower school campus and made impromptu commercials to "sell" our books to our fellow classmates, an assignment that Ramona also was required to do with some very interesting results.

Lunch at the Middle School.

Observing the big kids during tech class.

This young man's project was a big hit.

Up close and personal

Foosball was also a hit.

Ramona Quimby, the play

Mitch and Amy, only $5. You get the book, the basket, all the magnets PLUS the white board!

Henry and Ribsy, only 15 cents! What a deal. Plus you get these wonderful math manipulatives!

The Ramona series. Join Aunt Bee in her yellow sports car! Only 5 cents!

J.  and Mrs. Towne are willing to GIVE AWAY this free book, Henry and Ribsy, because it is such an awesome, entertaining, fun book to read! We might even pay you to read it!!