From the September 28, 2007 issue of The Cape Codder

News from Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School

ORLEANS - For the third week of school, the sixth grade headed up north to Greenfield, N.H., for a week of learning at Nature's Classroom. Nature's Classroom is an environmental education program that brings the classroom outdoors. While there, the sixth-graders of CCLCS had a variety of classes to choose from. Tree identification, building a Burma Bridge, and shark dissection were three of the many classes offered by the Nature's Classroom staff. The highlight of the week though was when all the students hiked Mount Monadnock. Many groups made it to the peak, and all groups made it above the tree line.

Celena Bosetti, a sixth-grader, summed the week up best. "It was an amazing experience for all," she said. It truly was, and we hope to repeat it again next year in the sixth grade.

In seventh grade, students in Mr. Trull's science class were sharpening their skills and lab techniques by using triple-beam balances to measure the mass of objects in the classroom. Rocks and bones, liquids, and comparisons of the wood from different tree species are measured, followed by lessons measuring the volume and density of these objects. These introductory lessons prepare students for chemistry labs in the future.

Seventh-graders and their families spent last Friday aboard the Dolphin VIII whale-watching vessel, a make-up trip from a weather-canceled excursion at the end of their sixth grade school year in June. Twenty-two whales of three species were observed on this beautiful, flat calm, sunny day. The seventh-grade teachers wish to thank the June weather.