Today is really nice outside and the playground for lower school is almost finished. Today during mentoring we had a study hall but during English we had a poetry workshop and Mr. Higgins a college professor came and taught us a little more about poetry and we played some psychology games and wrote a poem about our worst fear of turning into something... and lets just say there were some interesting things people came up with.

Today's Earthquake Fact- The Hawaiian Islands are the tops of gigantic volcanoes that formed above a hot spot in the Earth's interior. As the volcanoes grew, they were carried away from the hot spot as the Pacific Plate moves northwestward at about 3 1/2 inches per year.

Go here to play a fun game to see how much you know about Natural Disasters! http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/quiz-natural-disasters.html?source=sem_G2309c&kwid=ContentNetwork3302873987&gclid=CMXJoOrNhZoCFSAhDQodXXdyFw

According to http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/ there have been 3 earthquakes in the last hour and 1 of them accured near Sacramento.

Todays Weather :
High: 76°
Low: 57°
Barometer: 29.86 in and falling
Humidity: 34%
Visibility: 10 mi
Dewpoint: 47°
Wind: SE 8 mph
Sunrise: 6:32 am
Sunset: 8:03

YOURS TRULY,
NATALIE :)