Community Descriptions

Community Descriptions
From Leduc, Alberta, Canada Our School St. Benedict School is one of three Catholic public schools in Leduc. We have 160 students attending our school from kindergarten to grade six. There is only one class of each grade. There are 27 students in our class. Approximately 50% of the students ride the bus to school, approx. 25% of students walk to school, and 25% are driven to school by their parents. Our Community Leduc is a small city of 15,000 people. It is a satellite community of Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta. Most people live in private, one family homes. Leduc has access to a major highway, railway, and the Edmonton International Airport. Important buildings are the hospital; a new Protective Services building that houses the Leduc RCMP Detachment, the Fire Department and the Ambulance Department; the Black Gold Center consists of a hockey arena, indoor swimming pool with a water slide and outdoor spray park, and a cultural core with meeting rooms. The city also has a variety of outdoor facilities: baseball diamonds, soccer, football, and rugby fields and even a biathlon range. Leduc has beautiful parks with a 25 kms. system of cycling and foot paths that link the parks and all the city1s neighborhoods. Telford Lake is surrounded by nature and interpretive trails. The lake is very popular. In summer, people launch canoes on the lake. In winter, ice racing and cross country skiing are popular. Fred Johns Park is closest to our school. It has a large reservoir. Its a great place to go trout fishing and adjacent is the Leduc Golf and Country Club. Leduc is known as an oil city. The first oil well in Alberta was the Leduc No. 1 in 1947. Many jobs are related to the oil industry. Because the airport borders Leduc, many people also work at the International Airport. Landscape The land in our city is flat with lots of trees planted in the many parks and along pathways. Within the city limits is a lake and several man-made lakes. We see an occasional rabbit hopping across the school field. We have lots of wildlfe around the reservoir; e.g. muskrats, Canada geese, cormorants, red-winged blackbirds, etc. Deer are a problem in the airport fields and they are often hit by vehicles when they try to cross the highway. We even had skunks in some of our backyards last summer! Mrs. Hansen's Grade Two class http://starcatholic.ab.ca/stben/classes/2h/2h.htm

From Leduc, Alberta, Canada

Our School
St. Benedict School is one of three Catholic public schools in Leduc. We have 160 students attending our school from kindergarten to grade six. There is only one class of each grade. There are 27 students in our class. Approximately 50% of the students ride the bus to school, approx. 25% of students walk to school, and 25% are driven to school by their parents.

Our Community
Leduc is a small city of 15,000 people. It is a satellite community of Edmonton, the capital city of Alberta. Most people live in private, one family homes. Leduc has access to a major highway, railway, and the Edmonton International Airport. Important buildings are the hospital; a new Protective Services building that houses the Leduc RCMP Detachment, the Fire Department and the Ambulance Department; the Black Gold Center consists of a hockey arena, indoor swimming pool with a water slide and outdoor spray park, and a cultural core with meeting rooms. The city also has a variety of outdoor facilities: baseball diamonds, soccer, football, and rugby fields and even a biathlon range. Leduc has beautiful parks with a 25 kms. system of cycling and foot paths that link the parks and all the city1s neighborhoods. Telford Lake is surrounded by nature and interpretive trails. The lake is very popular. In summer, people launch canoes on the lake. In winter, ice racing and cross country skiing are popular. Fred Johns Park is closest to our school. It has a large reservoir. Its a great place to go trout fishing and adjacent is the Leduc Golf and Country Club. Leduc is known as an oil city. The first oil well in Alberta was the Leduc No. 1 in 1947. Many jobs are related to the oil industry. Because the airport borders Leduc, many people also work at the International Airport.

Landscape
The land in our city is flat with lots of trees planted in the many parks and along pathways. Within the city limits is a lake and several man-made lakes. We see an occasional rabbit hopping across the school field. We have lots of wildlfe around the reservoir; e.g. muskrats, Canada geese, cormorants, red-winged blackbirds, etc. Deer are a problem in the airport fields and they are often hit by vehicles when they try to cross the highway. We even had skunks in some of our backyards last summer!

Mrs. Hansen's Grade Two class
http://starcatholic.ab.ca/stben/classes/2h/2h.htm

From Berlin, Wisconsin

Clay Lamberton Elementary houses PK through fifth grade. We have five sections of each grade level in our building. We have a pool, two gymnasiums, two computer labs, and two playgrounds at Clay. We have over 600 students in our building. Most of our students ride the bus to school because we live in a rural area. The population of our city is approximately 6,000.

Wisconsin is known as the Dairy State because there are so many farms here and we produce lots of milk and cheese. Berlin has many farms outside the city limits. While driving home from school tonight, I stopped to photograph part of a dairy herd. They were very friendly and very willing to pose for the camera.

Other animals that can be found in our area include; white-tailed deer, rabbits, skunks, chipmunks, raccoon, foxes, opossum, squirrels, groundhogs, mice, wolves and bears. (The wolves and bears are found in northern Wisconsin.) We have lots of trees and lakes in Wisconsin. People enjoy camping and fishing in the summer. People go skiing, ice fishing, snowmobiling and sledding in the winter. Several Wisconsin cities are listed as the safest cities in America.

We have sixteen students in our class, nine boys and seven girls. Our favorite subjects are reading, math and science. Our favorite food is pizza. We like to use the computer lab and we use our web site, Mrs. Coats' Corner to go to the sites we want to visit. Some of our favorites are Lemonade Stand, Interactive Tangrams and www.janbrett.com. We also like to take part in Internet Projects. We wrote winter poetry for one project. We are counting Froot Loops for another project. A gingerbread man is visiting us right now as part of another Internet Project. We are very excited to be a part of Project Groundhog again this year. Last year our groundhog was right. We hope he is right again this year because he predicted an early spring. We have had nearly three weeks of inside recess because of cold weather. Believe us when we say we are ready for an early spring!!

We are looking forward to learning more about your classes and communities. We are betting that some classes do not have snow on the ground. We are wondering if your schools are like ours and if your classes are the same size as ours. We hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Coats and her second graders
Visit our Web site: http://www.myschoolonline.com/wi/mrs_coats

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