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Mystery Trip - 2025

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Every year 4-5 takes a mystery trip. We don't know where we are going and we find out when we get there. Sometimes we go to the beach or a lake. The teachers kick off the conversation with absurd ideas. Sometimes it is an exotic place or a spot that doesn't even exist. This year they told us we were going to a bean factory, (which was knocked down) a farm that had a rare and elusive invisible sheep called cloud sheep, and that we would be working for the Morton Salt Company picking salt off the salt hay on the marsh. The teachers told us that after we help with the beans and salt we would get credit on the labels of the containers and we would get to bring home the wool of the cloud sheep. Last year's kick off was even more absurd. They told us we were going to a donut farm to plant donut seeds which were cheerios, go to have tea with the late Queen in England, go on a treasure hunt, and visit the cheese museum. After telling us where we were going the teachers gave us a packing list. The list had suggestions like a spoon for the beans, a basket for the wool, and an extra sock because the cloud sheep like clean socks. Of course, its all fake! 

We got on the bus not knowing where we were going. We stopped at GMRI and Tim told us we were going to visit their interactive Cohen Center. That was a trick. We stopped by Portland Lobster Co and Tim said we would peel potatoes for french fries. False! We actually went to the East End Playground for an extra long recess. Then, we went on a Portland Discovery harbor cruise. Steve was our tour guide, a former newscaster who sounds like Michael Scott from The Office. He told us a lot of things like that House Island got its name because it had the first house built on it. He told us why Bug Light is called Bug Light, because some said when it was built that it was as a cute as a bug and that stuck. We got to go anywhere on the boar. Upstairs, downstairs, inside or out. Towards the end of the ride Julia hosted a dance party. We gave her song ideas and she played them. One of our highlights was singing along to Believer and Hey. Lots of people could hear us sing Pink Pony Club.  

This is our last post of the year. We are happy this is our last one and we are excited for summer! All of our class worked to write this post, just like we did with the first post of the year. 

By Bea, Rex, Sylvan, Max, Jane, Kat, Addison, Suzy, Baxter, Luke, Landon, Iris, Ava, and Ruby
















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