Riverday+Reflections

Welcome to Riverday Reflections, a place to write about the Riverday experience. By Stinky Cheese**
 * ||  || [[image:IMG_0193.jpg width="210" height="279" align="center"]] || Mrs. Parker had a funny face on when she saw the bugs. And I saw Mrs. Parker with her camera. And when Running Puppy and I went down to the lake me and Running Puppy found a lot of thing like tadpoles andworms. And my mom came to Riverday with me and my friends from a different school. And my mom and Running Puppy went to the stations to find out about the stuff like how the squirrel got in a fox’s mouth. And at Riverday I got to learn about everything. by Hopping Puppy ||
 * ||  || Mrs.Plankey was my 1st and 2nd grade library teacher. She was a good library teacher. Until she moved to I don’t know where she went. In 1st and 2nd grade she read us a funny story called the Greedy Shape. It was somewhat funny. She had a Velcro board. When I went to Riverday I was surprised she was there. I forgot her name so I asked her what her name was and she said ‘’My name is Mrs.Plankey’’ and I said ‘’Oh now I remember." I didn’t know she was there. I was surprised she was there. || [[image:IMG_0191.jpg width="177" height="236" align="center"]] ||
 * NH RiverDay

I can picture it as if I were there. That wet lacrosse field was as slippery as a penguin once it gets out of the water.

I said, “A, run as fast as you can! Get that yarn ball.”

But we lost. It was a close game—10 to 5.

I think RiverDay was the best day ever.

My favorite of the centers was the glimmering macroinvertebrates, with its shimmering, ruffled water and its house-building bugs that live in pitch black rock caves that they build themselves on the bottom of rocks. It was a really nice day, so the river was as shiny as a sapphire.

My second favorite is lacrosse because it gave me a really good workout and warmed me up. We had two mighty fine teams. Our team didn’t do very well at winning, so we weren’t so mighty. We didn’t cry that we lost. We weren’t sore losers, but I surely was achingly sore in my muscles.

My third favorite was going to see the shimmering, rushing waterfall. It bubbled and boiled up like a witch’s cauldron when you just put a crow’s feather in the cauldron. We went to the trail to the splattering water that crashes down. That waterfall scared me like a monster popped up at me. We went to the upward top. We were supposed to go to the trail where the bottom of the waterfall starts the river, so Flarbnigle led us to the bottom of the falls. We went on rocks to draw. I wanted to read nature.

My fourth favorite was seeing the teepee go down. All the people were there. We all had fun; at least I did, because it was cool to see how it would have come down when the early Indians were alive.

My fifth favorite was winter ecology. I liked it because it taught me a lot of what animals do in the winter, like Lulu the bear for instance. She makes lots of dens, so if a predator comes in her home while it is snowing, she goes to the closest den she made. The reason why bears leave the den when it’s snowing is because the snow covers the tracks.

My last favorite is deforestation. The reason I liked deforestation is because the park ranger read to us and we got to make a poster about what we wanted to save in New Hampshire. I said I would save Christmas trees, and I didn’t finish it because I am a slow colorer. I care about the trees because in the big cities, there aren’t enough trees left.

Have you ever gone to a day like RiverDay? I did, and I think it was full of excitement.