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Third Graders Uncover Piece of Old Main
While kick-seining in the stream behind the bus maintenance garage recently, students from Ms. Flint's third grade uncovered a piece of McDonogh history.
And thanks to a recent visit to the school archives, the children knew they had found one of the terra cotta vents from Old Main, which burned down in 1928 and was replaced by Allan Building.
The hunk of terra cotta looked like the one archivist Frayda Salkin had just shown them. That piece was unearthed last summer by workers repairing steam lines in front of Allan Building. A picture of Old Main showed them exactly where the vents had been before the fire.
"The kids thought they'd struck gold," said science teacher Jennifer Richter. She had instructed the third graders to find salamanders, crawfish, and other living creatures as clues about the stream's health.
But the best clue they found was about the vent, not the stream: it had burn marks. Ms. Salkin confirmed their discovery as a piece of Old Main.
On that fateful spring day, third grade scientists became archaeologists as well.
While kick-seining in the stream behind the bus maintenance garage recently, students from Ms. Flint's third grade uncovered a piece of McDonogh history.
And thanks to a recent visit to the school archives, the children knew they had found one of the terra cotta vents from Old Main, which burned down in 1928 and was replaced by Allan Building.
The hunk of terra cotta looked like the one archivist Frayda Salkin had just shown them. That piece was unearthed last summer by workers repairing steam lines in front of Allan Building. A picture of Old Main showed them exactly where the vents had been before the fire.
"The kids thought they'd struck gold," said science teacher Jennifer Richter. She had instructed the third graders to find salamanders, crawfish, and other living creatures as clues about the stream's health.
But the best clue they found was about the vent, not the stream: it had burn marks. Ms. Salkin confirmed their discovery as a piece of Old Main.
On that fateful spring day, third grade scientists became archaeologists as well.