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The last day of vacation is here and school is about to start! Some people think there may be a snow day tommorrow (Monday) because of the big storm we just had (and it’s still snowing!) We had more snow than we have had in a very long time. It’s the biggest snowstorm of the decade! : ) I hope everyone had a awesome vacation!!!

Happy new year!!!!!!!!!! Finally, it is 2010 and a new decade. I hope everyone had an awesome New Year’s eve, day, and days following. Have a great year of 2010 everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am happy to say that the ski season in which some Hiland Hall students ski and snowboard at Bromley Mountain is starting! Tomorrow is the first Sunday, and Tuesday lessons will begin after vacation. I hope everyone has a great time skiing and snowboarding this year. Let’s hope the conditions are good!

Hope everyone enjoys their holiday break! Have a great holiday season, everyone.

This year Middle School is going on our yearly class trip this spring, so we are fundraising a lot. Now, we are selling cookies for the holidays. We are making oatmeal raisin cookies, shortbread, peppermint cookies, and of course chocolate chip cookies.

I have been participating in Monarchs in Space, a program where N.A.S.A is sending monarchs into space to be raised on the space station. We are part of the control group on earth. We applied and were sent a kit of caterpillars to raise. We had six originaly, one was canibalised another died but the remaining four are sitll going. Three caterpillars have crysalised one hasn’t. I’ll report when they hatch.

This week my friend Carter and I finished our volcano project. The volcano we studied was Mauna Loa. At the end of the project we made a model out of paper mache the model was really big. On Tuseday we painted our model of Mauna Loa then put a little flour on the top so it looked like snow.

This week we started a new project about world religions. We started it yesterday, but Ethan would not let us use the internet. So we had to use old fashioned things called “books”. I’m studying Judaism.

For the past 3 weeks we have been studying different volcanoes. We have finished the volcano projects and everyone’s volcanoes are great. Rowie and I did Mt. St. Helen and we did a model of before and after shot of the volcano.

For this years Middle School trip, we have decided to camp on the coast of Maine. The trip will also include a day trip to Boston. To make this trip possible we will be fundraising for the rest of the year. Currently we are planing a cookie fundraiser for the holidays. We are also considering babysitting at school for one day over the holidays.