Albie:

We went to visit baby turtles that just got hatched at a station. There were two cats. People collected the turtle eggs from the beach to hatch them, so if the baby turtles didn’t absorb their yolk, they could help them absorb it. 

There’s a bigger girl population of turtles than of boys. That’s because the temperature the eggs are kept at makes them boys or girls, and now it’s getting hotter, so there are more girls.

When you throw plastic out, the turtles think it’s food and so they eat it and they die. I liked the turtle place.

Noah:

 We went to a place to see turtles and we got to touch turtles. We got to learn about what they do when they are in their nest and about their instinct of where and when to come back from the sea.

Fun Fact: males usually never come back from the sea! Another fun fact: green sea turtles come back to sunbathe!

Baby turtles start eating seagrass and then small sea creatures.

The people at the turtle nursery said that if climate change keeps on happening then there will be too many males in one place and too many females in another place. We should also stop using so many plastic things so that turtles don’t die.

Noah:

Chiles Nogadas are eaten for Mexican Independence Day because they have the colors of the Mexican flag.

The ingredients in chiles nogadas are chiles, nut sauce and pomegranates.

Our friend Mateo and his parents came over for dinner, and his mom made us all chiles nogadas. I didn’t like them a lot, but my parents loved them!

Noah:

We had the day off school for Mexican Independence Day, and before that, learned about it at school. There was also a Noche Mexicana (Mexican Night) at school.

I learned that Mexico got independence from Spain after fighting the Spanish. That was on 16 September 1810.

People celebrate Mexican Independence Day by having parades and playing music.

Mexican Night (Noche Mexicana) at our school was fun. We played lots of Mexican games and we got Mexican food like tamales and Jamica.

Albie:

We started our before-school clubs at school. I did soccer. I got hurt five times and I got to kick the ball once, for a very little distance. I didn’t like soccer.

We also did Eco Warriors club. The rule was not to put plastic around. We drew and wrote and talked about not ripping off pieces of plants and how important plants are.

Noah:

I do Spanish, basketball, Eco-Warriors and drawing for my before-school clubs. 

It turns out I’m good at basketball! It’s because I’m tall and strong. Our first meeting, we just learned how to dribble. That means bounce the ball up and down. There will be matches against other schools. Those will be at the end of the school year. The older group gets to do tournaments.

At Drawing, I drew a picture of an island with a crab and fish and palm trees.

In Eco Warriors, we do missions. If there’s a problem, there might be an easy solution, but we have to figure out the solution that would be best for the environment. Like, imagine there was some spilled coffee. You could use paper towels to wipe it up, but that would be bad for the environment, so we found rags to clean it up. 

I can’t decide which is my favourite club, Eco Warriors or basketball!

Albie:

We had two hurricane days at school! 

It was so epic and pressurizing. The last one was so crazy. My dad left the doors wide open and I was just using the squeegee and towel nonstop. The rain came into the house and the squeegee pushed it out and the towel sucked it up. 

The first hurricane day, there was a hurricane party and it was so fun. It was at Coco and Isabel’s house, and the house was big and a beach house. It was so awesome being in the hurricanes. Hurricanes are underwater tornadoes. 

Noah:

A hurricane is formed the same way as a tornado except over a larger area than a tornado. The tornado hits the water and becomes a hurricane. 

We had two days off school. In the end they were tropical storms, not hurricanes. The storms were scary. 

Noah:

At school, we took part in the climate strike that happened all over the world. I wonder whether it was happening at my school in Albuquerque.

We made signs for the march. Mine said “Ride bikes, stop polluting.” I decorated it with a bit of glitter, even though glitter isn’t really good for the environment! 

We learned about Greta Thunberg in technology class. She’s the person who started the climate strike. 

Our school marched to the plaza and back. We did chants like “No hay planeta B!” The march was cool. 

Albie:

We did a climate strike at school to help the earth. We should help the earth because a lot of creatures are being killed, even creatures we haven’t discovered yet.

My sign said “I love Earth.” It had pictures of windmills and solar panelled boats and solar-panelled golf carts, and solar-panelled trucks. 

Noah

We went to a medieval town, San Sebastián, from the days of castles and knights. The town was old. They mined silver there.

We imagined living there hundreds of years ago as a rich kid or a poor kid. As a rich kid, your parents were probably from Spain. I imagined that I would eat good stuff like meat. I would go to school and get to play and have servants. If I was poor, I might be a servant or work in the mine. I would probably get to the mine by horse and cart. I might be a native person from Mexico. I would probably eat the Four Sisters, which are sunflowers, beans, squash and corn. 

We also went to a restaurant in San Sebastián. I had chile and wild pig. It was good. There were deep fried insects on the menu!

Noah

We were walking back from school, and I walked past a mango on the ground that bees were feeding on. I got too near a bee and it came up and stung me on my leg. It was painful and hurt a lot!

Noah

At school, I wrote a letter to the UN. It was cool. It was about saving the air and stopping pollution. In my letter, I said, please save the air because it lets us and the stuff we eat live. Without the air, the animals wouldn’t be alive, we wouldn’t be alive and the trees wouldn’t be alive. I wrote, please save the trees because we get fruit from them. I wrote the address on the envelope. My letter will be sent to the UN Climate Change Panel in Washington DC. Everyone in my class sent a letter.

Albie

I sent a letter saying save the world. I said that people should ride buses and plant seeds. My letter was sent to the world leaders.