A.T. Night

Thursday, March 20th is A.T. Night here a Summit. We will be sharing what we have learned with the community and eatting great food. Hope you can join us there!

Kindergarten Journal - March

Yea! We made it over the suggested 75 miles in Georgia. Most of the time we talked about the animals and habitats along the way. We have also shared pictures of the mountains and talked about how the trail has changed over the years. People have been the biggest culprit!

1st Grade Journal - March

We have completed the 88 miles there and 88 back. The children are currently working on researching facts about North Carolina in anticipation of our info board for A.T. Night.

2nd Grade Journal - March

2nd grade has completed our 293 mile journey through Tennessee. We learned the State wildflower is the Iris, Bull Cave is the Deepest cave @ 924 feet, the State animal is the Raccoon, and the Appalachian Mountains boarder the eastern part of Tennessee.

3rd Grade Journal - March

The third grade has walk/run 1,463 miles of the AT. We started at Springer Mountain, Georgia and have persevered through North Carolina, Tenneessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New york. We are currently in Connecticut. Our goal is to reach the end in Maine before the school year ends. We are about three-fourths of the way there! Since we have travel so fast and so far, we are currently gathering facts about native plants and animals, as well as landforms in Virginia. Over one-fourth of the AT trail is located in Virginia. We are linking up with the Appalachian Bluebird society and building some bluebird houses to be placed at our new school site. We hope to help connect the Bluebird trail from Virginia into North Carolina. More details later, we have miles to go and things to see and learn.

4th Grade Journal - March

To come

5th Grade Journal - March

5th has learned that the Penn. section has a wide array of large mammals such as a large black bear pop., deer, fox, coyote. We also know that the trail is rocky and hard on boots and feet. The elevation gains are from 320- 2080 feet.

6th Grade Journal - March

Since last hiking through Connecticut and New York and back again, the Summit sixth grade have since trekked an additional 340 miles on the Appalachian Trail. This puts their total AT hiking mileage at 620 miles! Speeches are currently being prepared on copperheads, red-tailed hawks, moose, bald eagles, black bears, cardinals, bluejays, bog turtles, black rat snakes, Mountain dusky salamanders, red wolves, and peregrine falcons. Benton MacKaye, the founder of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, is also being presented. The sixth grade is excited about AT night, and preparing a skit about hikers, animals and signs. We're excited and working hard!

7th Grade Journal - March

As you know we have already traveled through massachusetts and Vermont and are finishing New Hampshire.

New Hampsire: 161 miles of the A.T. goes through New Hampshire. The elevation is 400-6288ft. There are 35 peaks ove 3,000 feet.The best time to go is in July or August. White Mountains are the highlights of New Hampshire. There are very steep areas in this portion of the trail. Don't plan to hike more than 5-8 miles a day. Tempurature varies and snow is possible at any time of the year. Snow falls on Mt. Washington every month of the year. High winds and dense fog are the norm for the climate. Trail enters NH at the college town of Hanover along the Vermont state line. The trail heads northeast into the White Mountains National Forest and exists at Grafton Notch near Bethel, Maine.Some of the recreational activities include trout fishing and camping. I hope you look foward to hiking this portion of the AT when visiting New England.

Lindsey and Morgan -- 7th grade

8th Grade Journal - March

8th grade has hiked 249 miles. We have been working hard on our A.T. Night presentation as well. We have been studying the interesting facts about Maine because it is so different than any other part of the AT.

Kindergarten Journal - October

We had walked 47 miles and we will have no problem reaching the goal. We have learned about the animals on our portion of the AT and have done fun projects for the class.

1st Grade Journal - October

1st grade has hiked 70 miles on the AT. We learned about Wayah Gap. It's elevation is 4300 feet. We are hiking through North Carolina.

2nd Grade Journal - October

We have traveled through Tennessee on the AT. Our class has walked over 90 miles. We are continuing through the spectacular state of North Carolina. We found out that Clingmans Dome is the highest point on the AT.

3rd Grade Journal - October

Third grade has walked from Georgia, through North Carolina and Tennessee. We have entered our part of the trail, Virginia and have walked 572.4 miles. We are learning about our portion of the trail through discussions, books, and also pictures and stories from Barry Campbellbecause he and his dad have spent two days hiking on the trail. Zack Ross reported that the largest known tulip tree is in the Great Smokey Mountains. It is about 180 feet tall. We are excited to learn more and still have more of miles to log but we are hiking our way.

4th Grade Journal - October

5th Grade Journal - October

We have hiked our total mileage of 229 and then some. We have begun to gather some facts about the AT in general during a computer lab session. We just returned from the Smokies and we hiked collectively 40 miles by 20 of us hiking one mile north of Newfound Gap and back to the gap. One interesting fact that we discovered is that their are 260 shelters along the length of the AT.

6th Grade Journal - October

The sixth grade has run 280 miles through New York and Connecticut and back again. There are 5,000 volunteers who maintain the A.T. every year.

7th Grade Journal - October

The 7th grades have been hiking through Vermont on the Appalachian Trail. We hiked 150 miles through Vermont and now we are moving on to New Hampshire. Vermont is between the Connecticut River and the Green Mountains. The trail approches treeline at Killington and Stratton mountians. Vermont hiking covers a lot of different terain. Such as: rocky, and many others.

8th Grade Journal - October

Don't Forget!

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