The day we went to the pond at Evergreen Cemetery, we were very successful in our findings. We set many records, one being catching the most fish. The previous record was four or five but this year we caught many more than that. We caught seven or eight fish! Many were small, three quarters of an inch or less, but we did catch a fish that was about one and a quarter inches! We found many snails, frogs, insects, and more. My group, Tim, Jake, and I, caught a frog and named it Fred. From then on all the labs that we did we named our bugs, frogs, fish, snails or whatever we did a lab on. My group named them Fred or Fred junior and there was even a Fred senior. The first lab we did was our frog lab. My group tried to find Fred although there happened to be six or seven other frogs that looked exactly like Fred. My second lab was a predaceous diving beetle of some kind and we named him Fred junior. My third and final lab was of a bridle shiner, which is a fish. It was about three quarters of an inch and we named it Fred senior. Everyone's labs in sixth grade will be used to upload the information about the organisms to a website called Vital Signs. It's run by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. Experts at the gulf of Maine research institute will be in touch with us about what we found. We are considered to be citizen scientists but our answers are very helpful to the experts. And they now can save a field trip to the Evergreen Cemetery ponds because we asked the question for them, what lives in the Evergreen Cemetery ponds! (by Henry W.)