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BROMWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (214)
2500 East
Fourth Avenue,
80206-4214
(Columbine Street at East Fourth Avenue)

Telephone:
(303) 388-5969
Fax: (720) 424-9355
E-mail: Bromwell@dpsk12.org

Mr. Jonathan Wolfer, Principal

A-6 Keystone Memories

Packing, Preparing, and Getting Ready to Leave
With Keystone less than 24 hours away, many of us still had a lot of packing to do. Others had packing problems to deal with. Like me! I practically brought my entire closet with me but it all worked out. When I got to school I saw about a million duffle bags. Some had wheels like mine and others were those big heavy clunky ones with no wheels at all.
-- Skye

The Bus Ride Up
The bus ride up was excellent! The bus had a t.v. system, a bathroom, foot rests, head rests, arm rests and luggage rests. It was almost like an airplane. We watched Mr. R’s tape of “Eerie, Indiana,” played card games, told fortunes, ate, drank, rested, talked, and went to the bathroom. As we got to Keystone Science School, all the kids said, "WHOOO!"
-- Chuck

First Impressions of Keystone
When we started to pass by the really nice looking resort cabins, some kids said, “I hope I’m in that cabin!” Then Ms. Lewis said “Sorry, guys, those aren't the cabins we're staying in.” Everybody groaned.
The Keystone campus was grassy with a lot of large rocks all around. In the middle was the Dining Hall. If you walked past it there was the girls dorm, but if you turned around and went back the other way there was the boys cabin. Inside each room there were two bunk beds and two shelves and a green carpet.
-- Colin

We went inside our dorm and saw the lobby. Mr. R took group by group to their rooms. Connor, Miller, Erik, and I got room number ten. The lobby was the big room in the front. The bathrooms were right by the lobby. There was a men’s room and a women’s room. In the boys dorm we had flashlight wars. We would pretend that our flashlights were lasers.
-- Dylan

When I got to KSS (Keystone Science School) I thought would be different. I thought it would be nicer. Once we spent time there I felt like I never wanted to leave!
-- Elise

First Hikes and Games
On the first day we went on a little hike behind the boys cabin on the little mountain. I walked behind Colin and there was a bit of snow. If Colin were to fall into the snow I would know not to step there! When we went down we saw scat everywhere...
-- Rory

Keystone was the most fun
when we shared with everyone.
-- Alexa

We broke up into field groups. Lisa was our field instructor, and Bill Dudley and Gay Niermann (my mom!) were the chaperones. I was with Kate, Callie, Hannah, Jono, Logan, Nolan, Noah, and Alexander. From my point of view, our group got along pretty well.
We played games that helped us learn to work together. We played a river maze game, where you had to try to get the team across using the right pattern, and the group soup game, where we had to pass a soup can around the circle with our feet.
-- Sophie

We had to do this one very challenging activity where we had to run through a turning jump rope. It was fun. We also played a name game where we had to think of a game that started with the same letter as your name.
-- Alisa

The first afternoon we did a get-to-know-you game. You had to say your name and then do a silly dance move.
Then we got a colored pencil out of a hat, and we had to go find something in nature that was that color. I didn’t think there was anything in nature that was purple. I went to Guff (my instructor) and I asked her “What’s purple?” She said “Look that way...” So I went that way until something caught my eye. It was a flower! It was a pasque flower.
The third thing we did was group juggling. We stood in a circle and tossed as many as five balls back and forth all at the same time. We had to say “Here, Pierce” and “Thank you, Sarah” as we threw the balls.
-- Pierce

My field experience was excellent. The first day we looked for specific colors in nature. Mine was gray, and I found a lot of things that were gray. I really liked Mr. R’s drawing of a tree (it was great!). Also the first day we found and named our pet rocks. We played "Rockety Rock Rock Rock" and then joined everyone else to play "Geologist Is Coming."
-- Chuck

Field Instructors
One of the most fun activities at Keystone was going out in the field. My field instructor’s name was Lisa and our chaperones were Gay and Bill. I liked all the hikes because Lisa was a lot of fun. The games that we played were both easy and hard because Lisa liked to challenge us. All in all, Keystone was a great experience.
-- Logan

My field instructor’s name was Aaron. We called him AA-7. He was cool and funny. In the beginning we were not doing teamwork and he helped us to work together. I had fun and so did the others. When Aaron took us up to some mines, I kept falling down and he laughed. I had fun with him.
-- Angelica

If you were in Guff's group, like I was, you could tell she was really nice and funky, even guffy sometimes.
-- Alexa

Pet Rocks
My best field experience was when I found my pet rock. I was at 10 Mile Pass and my counselor Lisa said that it was time to look for a pet rock. I looked around and I saw a piece of quartz on the ground. It was round and sparkly. At first I didn’t even think about it, but when I really thought about it, I knew it was the one. I washed it in a little stream
near the path and it was perfect.
We played a game where we paired up with partners and described our rocks, and then Lisa would put the rocks on her backpack and then your partner had to find yours by the description you told them. That was my favorite field experience.
-- Callie

Looking for a pet rock,
just can’t find the right one...
Found it! Now what to name it?
-- Aris

On the first day we looked for our pet rock. My pet rock was a squarish rock with little sparkles. His name was Joe. Here’s his story: “Hi, my name is Joe. I was a sedimentary rock. I lived on the steep side of a mountain. Suddenly, the mountain started to shake. I was forced into gooey hot stuff, in fact it was so hot that I melted. It was lava. When it stopped flowing I cooled and crystallized. Now, I am an igneous rock.”
-- Mason

We went to Windy Point. The hike started slow than picked up pace, so before we knew it we were picking pet rocks. My pet rock was shiny, blue, and bumpy, then we went back to the van.
-- Miller

I named mine Budger. Once we named our rocks we described them to a partner. After everyone was done the instructor put them on a clip board or somewhere with no other rocks. Then we took turns trying to find our partner’s pet rock.
-- Amanda

The weather was
Soft as a blanket awaiting a cold body.
-- Chuck

Thursday: Day Hikes and Activities
On the second day, the field groups went on long hikes. Some were gone all day, and others went out for the morning, then came back, and then went out again for the afternoon.
My group hiked to Loveland Pass. The view from Loveland Pass looked like a snowy white blanket covering the colorful rocks.
-- Dylan

On the second day we took the vans over to a mountain. I forgot the name of it. When we started to hike up the mountain it started to drizzle rain, so everybody put on their rain gear.
As we hiked up the mountain, people talked about what they were going to do at flex time. That's all I remember about that part of the day.
When we got to the next mountain we played a game where we would tell each person a fact about rocks. Then we reached the top of the mountain. There were a lot of chipmunks there. They jumped from rock to rock and everybody laughed.
-- Colin

We hiked down rocky stairs and ate lunch under a rock wall. It was very quiet. Then we walked down to a place where we wrote in our field journals. We each found a rock and cracked it in half.
We walked down to a road and played a card game there. Our instructor walked ahead down the path and laid cards under rocks. There were 16 cards. Each person followed by himself or herself and read the cards one at a time. The last person picked up all the cards as she went. The cards asked questions like “What do you see around you?” and “What do you hear?” Then we all met up in a group and walked back to the dorm and had dinner.
-- Miles

Alma Algae and Freddy Fungus took a lichen
to each other and ever since their relationship
was on the rocks
-- Keystone proverb

I was in Alicia's group, and we went to a really pretty place called Windy Point. We went on a small hike and dashed down a steep rocky hill and saw cool rugged crystals. Later we went to Sapphire point. We also played a confusing game called "The Professor Game." One person would be the professor and share a fact from their card. Alicia would then give then give the next person a card.
-- Liam

When we went to Saint John's, everything was so cold and white. Water leaked through my shoes and pants. One kid got sick and puked. It was so disgusting! Let's stop talking about puke and start talking about the beautiful sights.
After a while we made it to a real mine. There were wooden beams around the opening. It was really dark. We didn’t go inside because it could be dangerous.
We also made it to an ice cold frozen waterfall, we could even stand on it! The waterfall was about 15 feet wide and twenty feet tall. It was so cool. After that we took a long cold walk down. Ones we got back to our cabins I took off my soggy shoes and changed into warm clothes.
-- Max

The vans were loud
and had a huge crowd
then came a bump
our seats went whump
that whump was a worry
and that is my story.
-- Colin

We went to Sapphire Ridge and Windy Point. They were both awesome, but I liked Windy Point the most because we got to see big rock formations there. From Sapphire Ridge we looked down and saw Dillon Lake.
-- Stacey

Hike all day, come back at night
for another hour of Keystone delight!
-- Morgan

Hopping at Dinner
Every group except one got to hop. In our group, Jake tried to put down a bench and dropped it. When I hopped the boys fought over the job with the garbage and the girls fought over the job with the vacuum. Maggie B. and I got to vacuum. One of the groups spilled water all over the floor. Oops! I spilled, too. The dishwashers complained because they had to pick up silverware with peanut butter and jelly on it with their bare hands. Yuck! Washing cups was the easiest job. All you had to do was rinse and put them in a tub.
-- Amanda

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