Earth Day on Cuttyhunk Island

On a very cold, blustery day the Cuttyhunk kids wanted to do something to help the Earth.  Gwen and Carter did some research about Earth Day to find out what it is and when it all started.  Then we went out to Channel Beach with Ms. Dunn and got busy picking up trash! 

Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 in the United States.  Now many countries across the world celebrate Earth Day or Earth Week.  Where do you think all of this trash comes from? 

Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22nd.  

Here's Carter picking up some more trash from Channel Beach and Gwen's taking a break.

On Earth Day people pick up trash and do things to make the world better and cleaner! Here's Gwen lugging a bag of trash back to our pile. 

Ms. Dunn took our picture with all of the trash we picked up on Channel Beach.  Can you believe how much we found?  Ms. Cathy is helping us too!  

Look closely by the water and you'll see Toby who didn't help us pick up very much. 

What did you do to help the planet on Earth Day? 

Until next time,

The Cuttyhunk Kids

SIGNS OF A CUTTYHUNK SPRING

Spring comes slowly to Cuttyhunk!  We went outside to look for some signs of spring. This is a beautiful purple flower we found growing on the side of our post office. We think this flower is a Grape Hyacinth, but we are not sure.

Carter took this picture of a Robin resting on a fence near the Post Office.  This is Gwen's favorite picture.   He had just finished pulling a worm out of the ground.   The Robin is a sure sign of spring!  The Post Office is very small and our Postmaster's name is Janet.

Gwen took this picture of two ducks looking for food in the frog pond next to Sopranos, which is our pizza place.  It is only open in the summer.

We also found a purple Crocus blooming beside the Post Office.  They come in lots of different colors.

Our teacher, Ms. Dunn, took this picture of some yellow Daffodils growing in the garden of the Island Market.  Our market closed for the winter but should be opening up again soon!

This is a picture of some leaf buds on a bush near the market getting ready to open.  This picture is my (Carter's ) favorite picture because it really brings out the feeling of  SPRING! 

Some other things we noticed were the Osprey have arrived on the island after migrating north from South America, it's staying lighter longer each day, there are more people around on the island now, a few boats are arriving in the harbor, and there is a lot of construction going on at neighbors' houses,  We had lots of fun on our signs of spring walk!

Until next time,
The Cuttyhunk Island Kids

Welcome to our new Cuttyhunk Island Schoolhouse blog!

WELCOME TO OUR NEW CUTTYHUNK ISLAND SCHOOLHOUSE BLOG! 

Hello people of the world!! Our Cuttyhunk Schoolhouse blog is now live! The picture you see above is a stone map of Cuttyhunk Island.  We are part of the Elizabeth Islands and the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts.  We were discovered way back in 1602 by Bartholomew Gosnold, even before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock.  We are located off the coast of Massachusetts about 8 miles from the island of Martha's Vineyard.  Life on the island is pretty quiet in the winter but in the summer it's very busy. The island is shaped kind of like a seahorse don't you think?

 

  

Hi! My name is Carter.  I go to school in a one room schoolhouse. In the whole school there are only 2 children, Gwen - who's my little sister, and me.  I'm in 3rd grade and my sister is in the 2nd grade. Our teacher and principal is named Ms. Dunn and she has a funny dog named Toby who comes to school every day with us.  Here is a picture of me reading at DEAR time.

Hi my name is Gwen.  I'm 7 years old and I have a bigger brother named Carter.  I go to school in a one-room schoolhouse.  Every day I ring the bell and put the day of school up. This is the first year I get to ring the bell because it is so big! When I ring it you can hear it all over the island.  I also learned to put up the flag on the flagpole that you can see in the other picture below.  We get to go on cool field trips but I will tell you more about that next time! This is me with Toby doing my IXL math practice.

Our one-room schoolhouse was built in 1873 and is in the middle of the island, look across from the church in the picture below, and just to the right of the white flagpole.  Our Dad and our Great-Grandmother Hazel MacKay went to the one-room schoolhouse here too.  We are on Tower Hill so there's a great view of Vineyard Sound.  Isn't it beautiful?  

<-----  Here we all are at our Community Halloween party in the Town Hall.  Toby is the one in the hot dog suit smelling Gwen, Carter is the tall skeleton, Ms. Dunn is the giant Dalmatian, and Gwen is the lady vampire.  We had a lot of fun scaring people as they came in, we bobbed for huge apples, ate doughnuts that hung from a string without using our hands, and of course ate LOTS of candy! 

Here's Toby the dog who goes to school with us. He's at the Fish Dock and was supposed to be helping Gwen write her three's table in multiplication, but he decided to go for a cold swim instead.                                                      

Here we are reading at DEAR time with Toby.  He's tired from all of that learning but he's getting pretty smart for 5 years old!  

Sometimes we have DEAR time outside too. 

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Until next time,
The Cuttyhunk Island Kids