Lady Maryland Composition

In the hustle and bustle of the end of the year I have not been putting compositions on the blog lately. I hope to add a few over the next couple of days. The quality of the boys' writing is outstanding as can be seen by the composition below.

This past Wednesday I went on the Lady Maryland for a field trip. The Lady Maryland is a replica of a Chesapeake Bay pungy schooner that was used to carry perishable cargo in the 1800’s. The Lady Maryland is 104 feet long and 85 feet tall.
There are many interesting facts about where the Lady Maryland sails. The place where the Lady Maryland sails is the Chesapeake Bay. The words Chesapeake Bay mean “Great Shellfish Bay.” The Chesapeake Bay is 200 miles long and is usually 21 feet deep, but in some places it can be 175 feet deep. To keep the Chesapeake Bay full of water, 15,000 streams that cover 100,000 miles altogether feed into the bay. That distance is enough to go around the world four times.
My field trip was better than I expected. Before the field trip everyone on the Lady Maryland went into one classroom and split into groups of five or six people. Within those groups we made group names and theme songs. My group’s name was the Bubbly Blue Oysters. On the day of the field trip all of the boys and girls got onto their buses and we drove downtown near the aquarium. When we got there, we put on our life jackets and got onto the Lady Maryland. Then we sat down and the crew told us the rules and what we were going to do. When they were done everybody split up into their groups. Each group went to one of four stations: flotation, navigation, the wonderful world of plankton, and water quality. The station my group went to first was flotation. In that station my group and I got to build a boat and drive the Lady Maryland. The second station my group went to was the wonderful world of plankton. While we were there we had the chance to catch plankton and look at them under a microscope. Then we went to the third station which was water quality. There we checked the salinity and acidity of the water in the Chesapeake Bay. In navigation, our last station we got to figure out where we were on a map. After the stations all of the groups got together to eat lunch. After lunch we let out a trawl net. In a few minutes we pulled the net out of the water and put the fish that we caught in tubs of water. Them we got back into the smaller groups. When everyone got back into their groups there were two more stations. Those stations were fish and oysters. My group went to fish first. In fish we got to touch the fish that we caught in the net. Then my group went to oysters where we got to see the inside of an oyster. Then the boat pulled into the dock, and we all left. I think the Lady Maryland is a great boat.