This morning we’re meeting 76 third graders at the beaver dam to teach them how beaver help the environment and how Martinez helped them! This will be our second such effort so I thought I’d pull up the old post so you can imagine our fate! This year Jon will be helped on the tour by Friends of Alhambra Creek Founder Shirley Skaredoff and my teaching-activity piece will be gamely assisted by Marlene Haws and Lory Bruno. I’m told we can expect a photographer from the Pleasant Hill Record so I’ll tell the children all to smile and say “TREES”!
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Back in December Worth A Dam hosted a fieldtrip for 60 Las Juntas third graders. Jon and Lory took them on a tour of the dam. I gave a lecture on beavers. And Fro taught them the beaver chant and helped them draw chalk beavers on the sidewalk. They were bright, enthusiastic, and very excited about beavers. We all felt very happy that day.
Then we all went home and took naps.
Yesterday I received this delightful collection of thank yous. Look closely at the dark beaver bodies because some smart teacher came up with the idea of using finger prints! There were 30 of these.
And thirty of these…
Here’s a sample:
I’ve been called a lot of names since I started fussing about our beavers. “Martinez Beaver Protector” is by FAR the nicest. Look closely at the tail in the drawing by Gianna. It’s mom.
