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May 23 we went to Sleeping Bear Dunes. A ranger took us on a tour of the dunes. Three things the ranger told us are: 1, stay on the trail. The ranger told us to stay on the trail because the grass is dune grass. Dune grass is a special kind of grass. 2, there are cotton wood trees. Cotton wood trees tolerate and grow well in the sand. 3, there were pretty plants. The plants were sand cherries, rasberries, poison ivy, and baby breath. I spent most of my time in the sand. ~by Katie H. |
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First we went to
the visitor center. Then we watched a slide show. After that we had to
drive a little before we started walking. The Ranger told us the legend.
I already heard it but he told it in a different way.
Did you know Sleeping Bear Dunes are perched dunes formed by glaciers? In the 1920's they stopped letting people drive dune buggies on the dunes because it would cause erosian. You can stop erosian by staying on the trails. Soon I found myself running down the hills and getting a face full of sand. I loved it. ~Louise |
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At Sleeping Bear
Dunes we lurned about sand grass. The grass keeps the sand on the dunes.
During the 1970's they couldn't ride Dune buggies on the dunes anymore
because of erosion.
The Legend of Sleeping Bear was that the Indians could see the perched bear on the dunes. Everytime the Mother Bear would swim across the lake, the cubs would dround. The dunes are called perched dunes because of the glaciers. We climbed the dunes. ~Andrew |
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I learned there
are two kinds of dunes perched and coast. We also got to see hills that
look like an alligator. There is another hill that looked like a bear
that was sleeping on its back. My favorite part was the dunes. I went up
6 times with a lot of people. I'd like to go again because it was really
fun. ~Kayla K. My favorite part was going up the dunes 7 times with Jordan, Bernice, Hailey, and Tawny. I would go back to the dunes anytime. I would want to go again because it is a very good learning experinsets. ~SaDee |
| It is called the Sleeping Bear because if you look at a surten place you can see a hill shaped like a sleeping bear. I went there only twice. My favorite part was when I got to eat lunch. I would like to go again because it is a very unique place and it is really fun climbing the dunes. ~Jacinda |
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I learned what plants grow on Sleeping Bear and that there's been a contest over one hundred years Sand vs. Plants. I climbed the dunes about 12 to 13 times. Ten on the big perched dune and 3 on the little one. It was harder to climb the little hill. My favorite part was running back down. ~Devin C. |
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My group had a
man tour guide. He showed us different kinds of plants and weeds. I went
up the Dunes about 16 times. I would go back any time cause it was very
fun. ~Jarett Our tour guide told us about how important it is to stay on the trail. I climbed up 4 times. My favorite part was the hike because you could learn many things. I'd like to go back. I think you'd like it too. ~Anna |
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| I climbed the
dunes at least 20 times. The day after I was sore. My favorite part was
running down the dunes. I would go back to Sleeping Bear
because I had so much fun that I didn't want to leave. ~Kayla F. The tour guide showed us that they have food for animals and there is a contest going on for a million years between the wind and the plants. ~no name on paper |
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We had a
ranger and she told us stuff. We learned about the legend and the race
between sand and grass. The wind tries to make it a coast dune. When we
were dune I climbed 2 times and 6 times half way up. So 8 times sort of.
I learned a lot about Sleeping Bear. ~Gerald The tour guide showed us the roots that hold the sand. My favorite part was walking the hills. ~Danielle R. |
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A park ranger
named Vern showed us the Dunes. Vern was nice. He left when we got to
the dunes. ~Natasha We left at 8:15 in the morning We took the bus to Sleeping Bear Dunes. All the 3rd grade ran down the dunes and Duane got hurt. I did a front flip running down the dunes. I got sand in my pants. It felt cool. The big kids were laughing at us when we fell. ~Tawny |
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| We ran on the
hill and I sat on the sand thw whole time then I feel down the hill. I
ate my lunch. I walked up the hill. The seagulls ate my lunch. I played
on the hill. ~Kari The class had partners. The class played games on the bus. The class fell asleep on the bus. Sadee took pichers of us rolling down the hill. Jordan fell down the hill. Tawny fell on the hill. The seagull grabbed Tawny's lunch. ~Hailey |
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We went at
8:15 and came back at 3:00. It was a field trip. My partner was Hanah. I
fell on the hill. The seagulls ate Tawny's lunch. ~Duwane The Sleeping Bear is a sad story because two Bears die. Baby's breath is a plant that kind of stinks. Sleeping bear sand is like the Sahara dessert. There is nothing like running down the dunes because they're big. ~Tucker |
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On the dune
hike the ranger pointed out a beautiful plant called babies breath.
Babies breath is beautiful but it sort of stinks. The ranger also showed
us the only tree that grows on the dunes. It is called cottenwood. The
cottenwood leaves are shaped like a heart. ~Meredith
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in the sand. We had races and then we went home. It was really fun. We
learned about the plants. There was dune grass, cottonwood trees and
poison ivy. ~Teddy I ran down the dunes. I did front flips. I did back flips. I was buried alive. ~Elithn (webmaster couldn't read name on) |
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The ranger said to stay on the trail and don't walk on the eges. The reason why is so the eges would not colaps. Soon we came to the dunes. We ran down and up. Then other schools came. They were high schoolers. They watched us go down the dunes. We took a class picture. The we all got on the bus and we went home. ~Cheyenne |
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On May 23rd the third graders went to Sleeping Bear Dunes. First we went to the visiter center. We watched a slide show about the dunes. Next we went on a trail called the cotton wood trail. A ranger showed us different kinds of plants. He showed us rasberry, beach cherry, baby's breath and some other ones. After the trail we ate lunch and played on a dune. The dune was huge. I ran down it lots of times. I kept falling. Other people were falling and doing summersaults. I had a lot of fun. ~Megan |
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There was a lot of poison ivy in the sand. The rangers told us to stay on the trail so we wouldn't get poison ivy on our clothes or on our skin. After we were done on the trail we we got to run down the dune once and then have lunch. After lunch I climbed up the dunes. After a while I had to crawl the rest of the way up. When I ran down I fell 4 times. My mom climbed once with me. When we got up we sat down and talked. While we were talking I played in the sand. I had a great time. ~Janique |
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At Sleeping Bear
we got to meet nice people who led us around. We got to learn about
different plants. The sand dune helps keep the sand out of the
road off the side walk. ~Alexis The poison Ivy looked like baby trees and a bush mixed together. At the end of the trail we got the the dunes. The kids ran down them fast. We found really steep and really big dunes. ~Devin T. |
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Baby's breath is
a flower that kills dune grass. In 1970's they banned people from
driving dune buggies on the dunes. The man said poison ivy has three
leaves and it is droopy. Dune grass helps the dunes stay up. Every year
some dunes lose 5% or 20% of sand. I don't know. One of them is right.
~Jon Mrs. Catanese's Home Page for 2005-2006 Mrs. Bromley's Home Page for 2005-2006 May 23, 2006 Trip to Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes |