Ross School

Alison Quoyeser's 4th grade Class
Pollution/Recycling Posters      Birds          Endangered Bird Poetry

Pollution/Recycling Poster Project

Students prepared a recycling poster to educate the Ross School community about a pollution problem and what we can do to help solve it. Here are some of the posters.

 

 

 

BIRDS

We took a field trip to the Point Reyes Bird Observatory’s Muddy Hollow Mist Netting site on March 22nd.  Ornithologists and interns there showed us how they capture passerines or perching birds in their almost invisible mist nets stretched across strategic places.  These birds are banded and data is taken about them to add to PRBO’s extensive database.  We saw a Gold Crowned Sparrow, a Ruby Crowned Kinglet, and American Robin, and a Rufous Hummingbird.  They were beautiful!

 

When we returned to the classroom we brainstormed ideas for poetry, and then each student wrote and illustrated a poem inspired by our field trip.  Here are some of those poems!

Endangered Bird Poetry

Each student in Ms. Quoyeser's fourth grade class did a research report on an endangered California bird.  As part of the report, the students were to write short, usually diamante poems about their birds.


Loggerhead Shrike
masked predator
undulating roller-coaster motion
goats destroying its habitat
endangered

by Taylor Forman


Plover
beautiful bird
run-stop-peck
sandy coastal beach dweller
endangered

by Ryan Sherman


Condor
Elegant flyer
Flying, Soaring, Grasping
Enjoying a tasty animal
Endangered

by Sam Kenney


Owl
Heart face
Hoo!  Hoo!  Hoo!
said the Spotted Owl
Threatened

by Sara Pope



Pelican
Soaring, gliding
Diving tremendously fasts
Expandable pouch scooping, catching
Endangered

by Mike Ryan



Unique bird
Great, graceful, glorious
Omnivore: meat, acorns, roots
Greater Sandhill Crane
Threatened

by Sam Baughman



Canada Goose
drab, strong
soaring, swooping, V-pattern
shooting, habitat, predators, protection
endangered

by Noelle Ruane



Flycatcher
Willow nesting
Hover gleaming insects
Enjoying singing “fitzbew”
Endangered

by Calum McCarty



Bald Eagle
Country’s bird
Soaring, hunting, amazing
Sharp, strong, elegant, awesome
Endangered

by Christopher Maxwell



Vireo
Migrating species
Rapid warbling song
Pale sulfur yellow-tipped wings
Endangered

by Katie Reeves



Cuckoo
Cinnamon upperwings
Loud ventriloquist songs
Happy in cottonwood thickets
Endangered

by Cole Van Brunt



Elf Owl
Cinnamon face
Emits high-pitched chirps
Dry desert climate migrant
Endangered

by Christina Koblick



Peregrine
Sharp talons
Eating small birds
Darting, diving, amazing speed
Peregrine

by Alexis Fineman


Flicker
Red whiskered
Soaring over treetops
Bright yellow-lined wings
Woodpecker

by Sophia Zeff



California Clapper Rail
Long, slick, brown bird
Wades its way through the water
Making a gentle path
through
The Circle of Life
Not doing anything to us
But...
We are the ones who kills

by Kira Rosenbaum



Clapper Rail
Marsh runner
Cordgrass and pickleweed
Enjoying insects and fish
Endangered

by Ryan Hogan



Swallow
Swooping tail
Gliding, swerving, graceful
She is Nature’s Daughter
Swallow

by Alexa Boesel



Gila Woodpecker
Zebra-backed
Nests in saguaro
Tap, tap, tapping trees
Pecking, probing
Insect larvae
Hammering trees with chisel-like beaks
Riparian nesting grounds
Monogamous birds
 Endangered

by Kathryn Hobart



Least Tern
Butterfly-like wings
Flapping in the wind
Burrowing in the sand
Endangered

by Katrina Georgiou



Owl
Immense, graceful
Fluttering, hunting, diving
Soaring across the Sierras
Endangered

by Jackson Mohsenin



Swainson’s Hawk
Soaring, swooping
Gliding over grasslands
Dark, brown, sooty black
Glossy feathers, silky, smooth, graceful
Magnificent

by Carl Mascheroni


Murrelet
ebony eyes
graceful swooping majesty
spears a shimmering fish
endangered

by Sarah Christensen



Rail
Brown, orange
Pecking, running, flying
Frogs, fish, insects, crayfish
Endangered

by Ethan Stuart

 

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