Ms. Flores-Ward's Seventh Grade Class
McKenney Middle School
Canton, New York
michele_w@server.greatlakes.k12.mi.us
This is Amanda Mousaw and Brigid Carson displaying their model of a hairy
woodpecker, made from balloons and scavenged feathers.
Here is Joey Scneller and David Hurlbut holding their life size model
of the great blue heron. It's made of paper mache.
The bald eagle was crafted from cardboard by Otto Tupper.
Two students wrote a small skit about hummingbirds. They made a life
size model but pretended to be
magically transformed so that one of them became the hummingbird character.
The conversation took place with the student dressed in a "hummer" costume
and suspended from the lobby railing by a harness, rope and carabiners!
They definitely taught us the meaning of "hover!" They also taught us about
the metabolism of this species and how the nest is glued together with
spider web. So here's Dulcie Ward dressed and suspended as the hummingbird
(which is also a MISTNET bird, by the way.)
Here is Chris Pepe and Josh Exoo with their snowy owl.
It was made from paper mache and can rotate its head just like the real
thing.
Jes Staples and Kathleen Coloton not only made a fabric
cardinal, they attached it to a pully system and it flew down from the
ceiling.
Kari Lock created a life size Canada goose. It has a core of styrofoam
and therefore is capable of floating.
Here is Ben Webster and the Baltimore Oriole he made from construction
paper. He is standing in front of the classroom map we use to track the
various Journey North activities.