The drive was long but incredibly scenic!  We emptied the whole state of South Carolina of its junk food!  Sarah taught us a beautiful round about constellations.  We are thinking of forming a class choir…off to hike in the pocosins today.  More later!

We have been so busy going places and doing special projects, I almost forgot to upload some of of the photos from our adventures!  This spring we have focused on ecology, both the social studies aspect of human ecology as well as the more traditional definition of environmental science.  We’ve had a blast!  We wrote reports on hunter-gatherer societies and built a model of an ancient Incan city (Tiwanaku) and the surrounding terraced-field agriculture.  Just last week completed our huge topographical map of Africa after studying some of the ancient African kingdoms.  Our turtle’s tank has been used as our field station for ecological research.  The other classroom features, various algae, plants, our bog terrarium and biodegradation station, don’t hurt our hands-on studies either!  We also head out into world as much as we can.  The photos attached are from trips to various parks and the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.

Hello All,
Last year we let you know about an opportunity to raise money for the school through shopping online. If you go to www.igive.com and register under The Atlanta School, any shopping you do at member web sites through Igive the store donates a portion of the sale to the school. we have a TIME SENSITIVE, super easy way to raise up to $5000 for the school. In the next 24 hours please sign up for (or log into) www.igive.com and then just click on one of the member stores, and Igive send the school $1. That’s it. See details below and please send this to everyone you know. THANK YOU!!
We’ll give The Atlanta School a dollar for each person who joins iGive using the special link below and visits one store via iGive between noon Wednesday, March 24, 2010 (Chicago time) and noon Thursday, the next day.
Here’s where you come in.  Send your friends, family, and colleagues the following link in an e-mail, tweet it, do a Facebook posting, put up posters, shout from mountain tops (you know the drill) and let them know you think The Atlanta School is pretty cool and deserves their support, especially since it’s free!  You can even just forward this e-mail.  The only way The Atlanta School will get new supporters and that free $1 (or more) is if you invite them.
This is the link:       http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=628270
Make sure you tell your friends to perform a store visit, so that they earn the dollar.
5,000 new members, $5,000.  No purchase necessary. That’s 5,000 new members for all causes, not just yours, and it’s only for 24 hours, so it’s a bit of race.
It can turn into more than a dollar, much more … if these new members search or buy something at an iGive store they’ll earn much-needed money for The Atlanta School.  Right now, we’re donating a special bonus of $5 for that first purchase plus the usual percentage.  Active iGive members raise an average of over $40 per year for their cause.
The details:
- Offer active between 12:00 p.m. (noon) March 24, 2010 and 11:59 a.m., March 25, 2010 (Chicago time).    - New members only (never have been an iGive member previously).    - All the normal rules of membership, searching, and purchasing apply, our site has the details.    - Once we’ve given away $5,000 in total, the offer ends.    - The special link and visiting a store via iGive are necessary.  No link, no store visit, no $1.
That’s it.  We’ve added tons of new stuff in the last months that we want to really test out, so spreading the word helps both The Atlanta School and iGive. Check it out yourself at http://www.iGive.com .  You may need to login first.

The Atlanta School will close at 5pm today.  We want to make sure that all of our families and faculty members make it home safely.  Stay warm everybody!!