I collect box tops and Maddy, Nick, and also Al collect box tops. Tristan is starting to collect box tops.
  I find box tops on tops of boxes and I cut them out. Some boxes don't have box tops.               
I wanted to collect box tops because I wanted to know what education means.  The company gives the school money for the box tops.                             
You get box tops from stores like Hannaford. The school cashes in the box tops for money. You get ten cents for every box top box.
Its a good thing to collect box tops.

Slugger Jane got a new tank. She got a new tank because the old one was broken. Slugger is a good pet turtle.
The new tank has two rocks for sunbathing, lots of fish for eating, and a plastic frame.
Nick found the tank at the junk yard. The man sold it to us for $75. It is six feet long and eighteen inches wide and twenty-two inches tall. So her  tank now is twice as big as it was before. The tank filter is eight inches long. It picks up poop, food, and skin. The fish in the tank swim in schools.
We raised money to buy the tank by selling cup cakes  and string dolls that we made. Slugger Jane likes her new tank and so do we.

The Upper Elementary class at the Stillwater Montessori School went to the Common Ground Fair on Friday, September 22, 2006. They went there because they are doing a food and farming unit.
At the fair, they saw sheepdog trials, horse shows and giant vegetables. They also saw all kinds of animals and people playing instruments.
It's very loud at the Common Ground Fair. The students could hear people everywhere talking and shouting. Sometimes there were people with microphones at shows.
Vendors sell wool there. It feels really soft. Fair-goers can touch lots of animals, such as ponies.
Visitors can do a lot at the Common Ground Fair. In the Children's area, they can jump in hay and bang on pans. They can hit this thing with a hammer and it shoots something up and that rings a bell. You can walk through a barn full of chickens and geese in coops. There are rows of stalls with horses and cows in them. There is a lady that will show visitors how to do a braided rug, and another
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by Damian Lee Robinson

Students of Stillwater Montessori go to Environmental Club every other Thursday. This is a learning club to learn about the world.
It is fun to learn about the birds and insects and the habitats they live in.
Students went to the ornamental gardens at the University of Maine.