Roberta Gray
Austinburg Elementary
Austinburg, Ohio, USA
Dear Friends, We are a class of second graders
at Austinburg Ele. in Austinburg, Ohio (41.46N. 80.51W.). Austinburg
is a Pre-K-6 building with about 350 students. Our school is the multi-handicapped
building for our school system, Geneva Area City Schools. We even have
an elevator in our building for students who use wheelchairs and walkers.
We have 22 children in our class - 13 girls and 9 boys. We
live in Austinburg, Ashtabula, Geneva, Geneva-on-the Lake, Jefferson,
and Ashtabula. Cleveland is the closest large city.
Austinburg is named after one
of its founders, Judge Eliphalet Austin. Austinburg is a rural area. There
is a horse farm next door to our school. When we look out our classroom
windows we can often see horses in the pasture next to our classroom. Sometimes
the horses get through the fence and come over to our playground.
Every year we have Austinburg
Country Days at the beginning of September. We have a parade, horseshoe
pitching, vegetable and sunflower contests, antique car show, antique
engine and tractor show, a pet show, garden tractor pulls, a slow bike
race, and country music.
In Austinburg you will find
the longest single-span Covered Bridge in Ashtabula County. This
156 foot bridge was built over Grand River in 1867. It is believed
to be the oldest of the County's bridges. It was renovated in 2003
-2004 and reopened to traffic in the spring of 2004. We have many
covered bridges in our county and even have a Covered Bridge Festival in
October.
We are part of the Geneva Area
City School District. There are four elementaries, one junior high and
one high school in the Geneva Area City School District. You may
find out more about Geneva Area City Schools at this web site: h
ttp://www.genevaschools.org/ Austinburg is about 10 miles
from Lake Erie. In the summer we like to go swimming, boating and fishing
in Lake Erie. We also like to visit the Strip at Geneva on the
Lake where we can go on rides at the Adventure Zone and Erie View
Amusement Park, slide down the giant slide at Wild Water Works, play
games at Woody's World Games Arcade and Edwin's Games Arcade, and eat
lots of great food at Eddie's Grill and Dairy Queen, Mary's Kitchen,
Capo's Pizza, Bev's Dairyland, and Madsen's Donuts. We also like
to go to the State Park at Geneva on the Lake to swim in the lake, play
on the beach, eat picnic lunches, and hike in the woods.
In the fall we rake leaves,
pick apples and grapes, and make jack-o-lanterns for Halloween. Ohio is
the third largest wine producing state after California and New York.
Most of Ohio's vineyards are along Lake Erie.
Every year Geneva
has the Grape Jamboree the last week-end of September. It is two
days of parades, rides, contests, and lots of fun! There are lots of grapes
and things made from grapes. You can even stomp on grapes to make grape
juice.
In the winter we like to build
snowmen and snow forts, slide down hills on our sleds, have snowball
contests and play in the snow. We live in the primary snow belt
which generally gets 60 - 100 inches of snow a year. So far we
have had three snow days. Two were because of high winds and one was due
to ice.
In the Spring it starts to
get warm and everything starts to grow again. We fly kites and plant
our gardens. It is a fun time of the year. We have lots
of trees and woods. We have a woods behind our school. We have
many wild animals in our area. Some of them are rabbits, raccoons,
skunks, black snakes, groundhogs, sea gulls, cardinals, goldfinches,
blue jays, wrens, owls, hawks, herons, crows, sparrows, robins, possums,
deer, wild turkeys, Canadian geese, quails, moles, mice, foxes, muskrats,
and rats.
Our favorite school activities
are reading, math, science, and working on computers. We have five computers
in our room. Each of them is connected to the Internet. We work on various
programs and/or projects on the computers every day. We just finished
an internet collaborative project called "Salute to Dr. Seuss".
You can view our project at
We have two pet black gerbils
in our room. Their names are Crystal and Midnight. They like to run in
their wheel and watch us do our work.
Our favorite lunches are pizza
and chicken nuggets. Pizza is one of our lunch choices every day.
Chicken nuggets is a lunch choice every Friday. Please visit our classroom's
web site to learn more about us:
http://www.genevaschools.org/austinbg/class/gray/ Mrs. Gray’s Second Grade Austinburg Elementary 3030 St. Rt. 307 W. Austinburg, Ohio, 44010 roberta.gray@neomin.org
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