Lake Champlain

After we left Mazza's, we traveled to Bayside Park to talk about and observe Lake Champlain.  We have been busy learning all about Lake Champlain and how it helps our community of Colchester. We have talked about 6 ways that Lake Champlain helps our town.  They are:

• exercise (swimming, kayaking, triathalon, parasailing)
• food (fish, rice)
• transportation by boat or ferry or kayak to NY
• water (our water in Colchester comes from Lake Champlain)
• visitors/tourism (triathalon, boat races, ice hockey tournament, vacation)
• fun (swimming, boating, picnics, just looking at the lake)

After talking about the ways that Lake Champlain helps us, we talked a little bit about Samuel de Champlain, who discovered and named Lake Champlain. Lastly, everyone was given time to look at and sketch the Lake. We noticed boats, bouys, birds, sand, and the beautiful mountains of NY from across the lake! We had a great time and we had a wonderful discussion about our lake!  We were then lucky to have a few minutes to burn some energy at the playground!

Again, I will post these pictures when I figure out how to do that!