by Teacher Peter Manzelmann Before we (first trimester ODL students – 1st 4th 6th grades) move on to identifying ten common trees on our Friends’ campus, students have been discovering, catching, and identifying red-legged grasshoppers and field crickets. We discovered that grasshoppers, when handled, spit up this brown liquid. Why? The students and I concluded […]

by Teacher Peter The Friends School 7th grade purchased five nesting boxes, constructed barriers for predators , and erected them across the school campus.  Two of the boxes were successful with bluebirds.  The other three boxes had activity from chickadees, house wrens, and tree swallows. Total number of boxes –  5 Total number of boxes […]

by Teacher Peter Manzelmann Teacher Skye and I wanted to share more about our successful trip to the Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC). We had a great trip and learned so much about our natural world! The bus trip – The fender bender and delay were an unfortunate way to begin our adventure, but no […]