Visit sponsored by: TD - Friends of the Environment Foundation: Sault Ste. Marie

First and foremost, thank you so much for giving my Grade 4 students the rare opportunity to experience a live peregrine falcon and all that that experience entailed! I know from the enclosed, personal thank you letters to you, the Canadian Peregrine Falcon Foundation, and TD/Canada Trust Friends of the Environment that all of my students will remember that experience all of their lives. We more than appreciated the chance to have you as a guest speaker in our classroom and school. I hope that you will consider my Grade 4 classes in future years, as well; for I am a strong advocate of environmental awareness and citizenship in young and old, alike.

I found the presentation both inspirational and informative for my students. It gave my students a chance to learn new vocabulary, instill a sense of citizenship with this environmental awareness, and a opportunity to tap into curriculum at the Grade 4 level with the Ontario Life Science - "Habitats" Unit. However, I would have liked your presentation to come to Sault Ste. Marie in the spring instead of the fall, sometime in April, because that is the time of year I focus on this Science unit to have it in cahoots with Earth Day (April 22) activities and environmental awareness. I believe if my students would have had an opportunity to have had most of the Habitats Unit studied before your guest speaker appearance, I think they would have gotten much more out of the presentation, and a much deeper learning.

Would it be possible to book a guest speaker, (such as yourself), now, to come to the Soo and Ben R. McMullin School, for the spring of 2007, some time in April? I look forward to your reply, at your earliest convenience.

Please accept our sincerest thanks (as denoted by each of my students' enclosures), and you will also find enclosed pictures done by my students depicting peregrine falcons in their natural habitats. Please accept all pictures as a token of our appreciation and a form of thank your for this rare opportunity.

Very Sincerely,

Bonnie Lloyd.
Grade 4 Teacher

Thank you Mr. Nash and TD Canada Trust Friends of the Environment for allowing our Grade 4 class to see and hear about the peregrine falcon.

I learned that peregrine falcons live on really high cliffs or mountains instead of trees. I also learned that if a peregrine falcon baby was found on a street a person would come and pick the bird up, bring it to the really tall building, and make a nest of little pebbles for the peregrine falcon.

The part that I liked was when we could see how the birds eyelids go sideways but it can still see where it was going. That was great! Thanks again for the presentation! Thank you again for coming to our class. It was awesome to see the peregrine falcon!

Your Friend,

Emma

Thank you Mr. Nash and TD Canada Trust Friends Of The Environment for letting our class see a peregrine falcon and learn about them. I really liked learning about peregrine falcons because I like birds. I learned that birds of prey are called raptors.

I also learned that DDT was hurting the falcons because if a bug ate a plant with DDT on it then a small bird ate that bug ,and then a falcon ate the small bird ,the falcon ate that bird it would have ate a lot of DDT.

I liked learning about peregrine falcons because they are an endangered species and one day they might not be around for us to learn about. I especially liked when Falon came into are classroom because then everyone could see what a peregrine falcon looks like in real life. Thank you for the presentation.

From your friend,

Emily