Day 3 at Cardigan
Paige M
Friday
Day 3: Movement:
This was our last day at Cardigan. We decided to do stream studies and then hike a small trail. For the stream studies, we were given a small plastic tin to put our findings in, a net to catch things, and a small microscope box. Then we were placed into groups. With our groups, we went to the stream and scoped up some rocks and sand. Then we placed it into the tin and examined. Our group didnt really see much at first. Then we saw something small swimming and moving the rocks. A water mite! But that was all we found for a while. Suddenly the other group found a baby salamander. We named him Squidward. Sadly, we had to let him go. Leave no trace, I guess. And we were off to our hike.
As we started hiking this small trail, we didnt really see much. We saw a couple of mushrooms, some dead logs, nothing cool. Then Mr.Woolner yelled for us to grab our sketchbooks, quick! So we ripped out our sketchbooks and looked at him. He then pointed at a small plant. It seemed like it had two layers. An easy way to explain that would be that it would have been a two story house if it was a house. It has a stem/stalk. Then a ring of leaves. The leaves were a light green color. The stalk continued with no more leaves for a while, then another ring of leaves was at the top. These leaves were slightly different. They had the same shape, but instead of just plain old green, the green faded into pink. It had little white flowers at the top of it. My group and I just exchanged glanced from where we were standing. What was Mr.Woolner trying to show us? He was mumbling about how he usually doesnt see them with two stalks. See WHAT with two stalks?? Then Mr.Woolner told us that it was an Indian cucumber plant, and that it was edible! So, we tried it. It tasted like a less bitter version of a radish. It was pretty good.
We kept walking and again, nothing super exciting happening...Then Mr. Woolner noticed something else. A mushroom that looked kind of like a bundle of string. Cool! I thought. Then as we drew it and took pictures, he told us that it was called Old Man's Beard. And it's not very common so seeing it was very cool. We went on our journey, nothing much happened after that. We read a book, we saw some trees. Nothing else. We ended our amazing trip with a fun bus ride back.
Movement is when you move people, things, or ideas from place to place. One example of people moving is when we got on the bus to go back to our school. An example, of things moving, is our luggage and bags being moved on to the bug and back to Hopkinton. Finally, an example of ideas moving, is our sketches. These are the idea of how we see things. Overall, we had an amazing time at cardigan and hope to go again!
