This Week at Bridges!Week 2 is BALTIMORE WEEK

July 1 - July 5, 2013About Baltimore Week: Baltimore Week is a celebration of the city we call home, and provides opportunities for stu-dents to see, experience, and appreciate some of the wonderful things it has to offer.

This week’s Baltimore Trips:

Grade 4: Chesapeake Bay Foundation - Baltimore Harbor - 7/2/13

Grade 5: Arden Courts of Towson - 7/2/13

Grade 6: Chesapeake Bay Foundation - Potomac River - 7/2/13

Grade 7: Tubing at Harper’s Ferry - 7/2/13

Grade 8: History on the Water - The Tall Ships of the Harbor - 7/2/13

Grade 9: Loyola University - 7/2/13

This week’s Assembly & All Program Activity

Wednesday Assemblies - Baltimore Jeopardy for House Cup points! All Program Activity - Team Sports & Student/Staff Basketball Game

Friday Weekly student award winners and House Cup update!

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Week 2 - Baltimore Week

Did you know that …

- The Chesapeake Bay Foundation aims to save the bay through education, advocacy, litigation, and restoration.

- Seventeen-million people live, work, and play in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and each one directly affects the Bay.

- Home to more than 17 million people and 3,600 species of plants and animals, the Chesa-peake Bay watershed is truly an amazing place. It stretches across six states and the District of Columbia.

- The Chesapeake Bay was formed nearly 12,000 years ago when glaciers melted and flooded the Susquehanna River valley.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation – sailing in the Baltimore Harbor and learning about the underwater ecosystem

Grade 4 - July 2, 2013

Grade 5 - July 2, 2013Arden Courts - visiting an assisted living center and a look into Alzheimer’s

Did you know that...

- Arden Courts provides a safe and pleasing home for individuals with mem-ory loss.

- Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly de-stroys memory and thinking skills.

- In most people with Alzheimer’s, symp-toms appear after age 60.

- Alzheimer’s disease is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer. In 1906, Dr. Alzheimer noticed changes in the brain tissue of a woman who had died of an unusual men-tal illness.

A view of Arden Courts, located in Towson, MD.

Fourth graders inspecting their find aboard the ‘Arthur Sherwood’.

Did you know that …

- The Chesapeake Bay, as most histori-ans believe, was named after the Algon-quin word ‘chesepiooc, meaning “great shellfish bay”.

- The Bay holds more than 15 trillion gal-lons of water, and is fed by more than 50 major tributaries, most notably the Susquehanna, Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James rivers.

- The Chesapeake Bay watershed is the largest estuary in North America, and the third largest in the world.

- The watershed is more than 64,000 square miles, and is located in six states (Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Vir-ginia, Pennsylvania, and New York)

Chesapeake Bay Foundation - Boating along the Potomac

Did you know that …

- The Antietam Creek is a 41.7-mile-long tributary of the Potomac River located in south central Pennsylvania and western Maryland in the United States.

- Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jeffer-son County, West Virginia, United States. It is the easternmost town in West Virginia.

- Historically, Harpers Ferry is best known for John Brown’s raid on the Armory in 1859 and its role in the American Civil War.

- The term “Antietam” is thought to be a derivative of an Algonquian phrase mean-ing “swift-flowing stream”.

Tubing at Harper’s Ferry - a slow and relaxing glide down the waters of West Virginia

Grade 7 - July 2, 2013

Grade 6 - July 2, 2013

Sixth graders and their guide, cruis-ing down the Potomac River.

Students and their volunteers gather at the start of their journey down Antietam Creek.

Did you know that …

- The USS Constellation was an active Navy ship (between its creation in 1855 until 1933.)

- The Constellation was the last sail-only warship designed and built by the US Navy.

- The Constellation made her final stop in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on May 23, 1963.

- The USCGC Taney was present during the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

- The Taney was finally decommissioned on December 7, 1986 to Baltimore’s Harbor.

History on the Water - The Tall Ships of Baltimore’s Harbor

Did you know that …

- Loyola University was founded in 1852 as a Jesuit, Catholic university.

- Loyola University’s total enrollment from 2011 was over 6,000 students be-tween their undergraduate and graduate study programs.

- Some of the most popular majors are: Biology, Business, Communication Studies, English, History, and Psychol-ogy.

- Approximately 65% of the student body receives some form of financial aid.

- Loyola University is proud of their 12:1 student to teacher ratio, and its average class size of 25.

Loyola University – touring the campus, taking classes and tackling the climbing wall.

Grade 8 - July 2, 2013

Grade 9 - July 2, 2013

The USS Constellation, anchored in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Students enjoy a tour through campus from a Loyola tour guide.

1) Home to more than _____ million people and _______ species of plants

and animals, the Chesapeake Bay watershed is truly an amazing place.

2) In most people with Alzheimer’s, symptoms appear after age ______.

3) The Chesapeake Bay watershed is the largest estuary in

_______________.

4) Antietam Creek is a ___________ mile long tributary.

5) The term “Antietam” is thought to be a derivative of an ____________

phrase.

6) The _______________________ was the last sail-only warship designed

and built by the ______________.

7) The USCGC Taney was present during the infamous attack on

_________________ on December 7, 1941.

8) Loyola’s total enrollment from 2011 was over ____________ students

between their undergraduate, and graduate study programs.

9) Loyola is proud of their _____________ student to teacher ratio.

Turn in to your Head Counselor for House Cup points!