Our time is now 3 hours behind yours, making it 9:49 in Arizona as I write. We have been up since 7:00 your time and our bodies still think we are on East Coast time. So I'm typing with one eye open and one eye closed. I have taken quite a few pictures today and will get them organized and loaded on the site. I was most intrigued by the scenery in New Mexico. I will post the pictures on a new page.
I answered your questions today, actually twice, but lost the first reply. These are posted in response to your comment below. Look forward to hearing from you and answering more of your questions. Hopefully, you will be challenged to research the questions and do the math. Will have to see what I can do as a surprise for the first person to answer the geography questions correctly and get them to me. Post them as a comment. Let's see who is willing to do a little extra work, AFTER HOMEWORK and CLASSWORK.
Tomorrow is another day and another opportunity to excel!! Do your best. Hope you have had a great week at school. Miss seeing all of you.
9 comments:
Lidia morales-5th grade
did you get to touch the huge haystacks?
Shania Johns - 5th Grade
Hey Mrs.Solomon,Is Your Trip Going Good?We Turned In Our Project, About The Biomes,I Did African Grasslands.36
Lidia morales-5th grade i got a 92 on my multiplication
how long did you sleep
shawn-5grade how long were you up afther dust storm
david-5grad
wer you rely slepy??????
TEXAS SIZED HAYSTACKS - to Tar'Naja, Chris, Myieshia, Taylor and Lidia
The haystacks were quite large. We were not able to stop and walk over to them, so we not able to sit on or touch them. Having discussed your question with Mr. Bruce we determined that each stack was about 6 feel tall. Each row of stacks was 4 stacks high, so the whole row was about 24'. That's pretty tall. This hay is used to feed the animals on the ranch, especially the horses and cows.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR TEST SCORES to Tar'Naja, Myieshia, Lidia and Anonymous (you forgot to post your name)
I was very glad to hear of your grades on the multiplication test and the spelling test. You have now proved to yourself that you can do this if you STUDY and try harder. I now expect you to continue to perform at this level. It will take hard work, but you can do it. School is like your job, you go to it everyday and you must do your best.
Good luck on the next round of tests! I'm pulling for you.
A “HODGEPODGE” OF QUESTIONS – to M’Smrya, Chris, Tar’Naja, James, Daiyiana, Shania, Brooke, Taylor
You all asked all kinds of questions about the trip. First, where did we eat? We tried to stay in hotels that provided breakfast as part of their service. We were pretty fortunate, except for one night, to find hotels that had a pretty good breakfast spread – muffins, bagels, pastries, cereals, juices, toast, and waffles (plain or blueberry). For lunch, we usually stopped at a Cracker Barrel so we could go in and sit down to eat. We needed to be out of the car for a while and I like to shop in the store!
When you drive to California, you go through three time zones meaning that the time changes. When we arrived in California, the time was 8:22, but it was 11:22 in NC. Changing times zones often messes up your sleep patterns; yes, when I posted that I was sleepy I was really sleepy‼
To the question about ranches and pets. We did not stop at any ranch and have the chance to pet any of the animals. While there are a lot of ranches in the west, most of them are not open to the public to stop and come in and visit. There is a ranch zoo near Williams, Arizona that allows you to visit with the animals. We stopped at this ranch zoo in 1994 when we were coming back from California to our home in Maryland. You could feed the animals to include giving the baby goats a bottle of milk.
Tornadoes are wild creatures. They are unpredictable, strong and dangerous. Your question about their ability to turn off my cell phone is a good question. Generally, the presence of a tornado will cause disruption in service, meaning the cell towers are not responding to your phone signal. There is always the possibility that my phone could be turned off by the force of the wind, but I do not really know.
Several of you asked if we were enjoying the trip. It has been fun. It is always exciting to see new places and meet people along the way. We’ve met people from Alaska and Washington states, places very far from NC. We’ve stayed in hotels in three different states – TN, OK and AZ. Generally we were in bed by 11:00 p.m. and up at 6:00 a.m. and on the road by 7:00 a.m. The dogs always woke up as soon as they heard Mr. Bruce moving around.
I have lots of information to post and will be putting together info on our travels through New Mexico, Arizona and California. Then I will be posting information on topics like farming, military, Indians, energy, the landscape and more.
Yes, the trip has been fun.
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