Tracks
P.O. Box 30235
Lansing MI 48909
Dear, Christie
Bleck
I like the
magazine TRACKS that you publish and write. I think that
it teaches kids about saving the forest and helping
animals. It also tells kids to not pollute and destroy
our forests. The magazine also tells about our own
community like our own Michigan pheasant and the trees.
You also tell about the animals that go dormant and the
ones that migrate like the geese. In the pheasant one,I
liked to read the hunting section and the fly fishing
area too. My friend didn't approve of the dishes and game
birds because he doesn't like killing them.
I think that you should keep writing this even if some
one tells you to stop. So I think you should do this and
keep doing a good job at it. Now the next thing you
should write about is elk or bear or even wolves because
people don't now much about them that's why.
Sincerely,
Tayler
Dear Christie
Bleck,
I liked the one Tracks with the forest topic. I never
knew that trees had so many layers of bark! Forests are
beautiful things that should be preserved and not
bulldozed for roads and highways. And I didn't know how
to identify most trees by their leaves. So thanks for
publishing that one. I know I'll like the next ones.
On the opening day of deer season my dad and I bagged a
five point buck. The first thing we did was get our
orange on and my dad loaded his gun. Next we walked off
into my friend's field and then we walked off into the
woods. When we walked into the woods I noticed some
droppings. My dad said that some does made them. Next we
went to an old antique car that we used as a blind. Then
we did some more walking and crossed a barb wire fence
and continued down a hill and back into the field. That's
when I noticed a rubbed up tree and a pond and that's
were I went in that area and gestured to my dad but he
didn't go so I went back up to him but, he told me to go
where I was going. So I did. That's when I heard a
gunshot and I know the sound of my dad's gun so I knew it
was him shooting. I went back up to him for the last time
and saw he got a buck. When he went to make sure it was
dead he gave me his knife. " A lot of good this is
going to do against that buck!" I thought. But
luckily I didn't need to use it my dad shot it again and
he got the car and we brought it home. All this happened
between 10:30 and 11:00.
Sincerely,
Timothy
Dear Christie
Bleck,
I like reading your tracks magazine. They are a lot of
fun to read. It teaches me about animals and plants. Like
the ring-necked pheasant and white pine. The female
pheasant is about 21 to 25 inches long and males are 30
to 36 inches long. They eat plants grains acorns and
berries. People hunt them sometimes just for fun some for
food. I heard they are good to eat even thew I've never
tried one. I think they are very neat birds.
I have a small forest in the back of my house. The first
time I was in it, Sherry, one of mom's friends, and I had
to pick up all the glass, tires and other things. A few
things were bigger then me like the refrigerator. When we
were done the woods looked nice. We cleaned up the woods
because we were going to put up a wire fence for the
black pony. We were going to take care of the black pony
when everything was done. After we were done and the
horse got there James and I rode the horse. We were happy
for cleaning the woods.
Sincerely,
Anne Agle
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Letters to Tracks
Magazine
Dear Christie
Bleck,
I like Tracks
magazine because it gives you a lot of facts about wild
life. We read tracks for science. I liked the one on
pheasants. My family has a permit so we raise pheasants
from spring to fall. In fall we release them into the
woods by our house. There aren't many around my house so
were trying to bring them back.
I like
pheasants because they are beautiful birds. There green
head, gold body, & white ring really makes them look
cool.
Sincerely
yours,
Justin
My name is TJ.
I like Tracks to read. I like deer a lot. I do not
like to eat deer. Deer are a very cool animal. In my
class we read Tracks out loud. I hope we can get a
lot of them. I hope you can make a deer tracks. Deer are
a very cool. I like deer very much. I like baby deer to.
I would like to have one baby deer. If I had a deer I
would like it very much. I hope I can see a baby deer
this time. I like deer because they can run fast very
fast.
I drew this
picture of a deer. I drew it on paper and colored it with
crayons.
T.J.
Teacher Note:
Although only a few letters and graphics are shown here,
all fifth grade students wrote to Tracks magazine
and inserted a graphic. Christopher and T.J. drew their
deer on paper and colored it with crayons. After I
scanned it, I put the copies in their folders. They
inserted it into their letters. Anne, Tayler, and Justin
made their drawings in the Kid Pix computer
program. They saved their art and inserted it in their
letters.
Our fifth grade language class meets daily in the
Macontosh computer Lab. We use the word processing
program, Microsoft Word.
Return to the fifth grade
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assignment page
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