Greetings, fourth graders!Your intrepid reporter brownie here, reporting to you again from Colorado! Emily’s Cousin Don said that I could write his blog entry today and let you know what great things were have been doing during my visit to Colorado. What fun I am having!
Today, Cousin Don took me on a tour of Denver, Colorado. Denver is not only the county seat of Denver County; it is also the state capital of Colorado. 
Colorado was the 38th state to join the United States; its state constitution was adopted and the state joined the union on August 01, 1876. As this was the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Colorado is also known as the Centennial State.
The name Colorado comes from the Spanish word “Colorado” which means red. It gets its name from all the iron and feldspar in the rocks. These minerals make the rocks red. Here at the state capital in Denver, the actual height of one of the steps of this building is 5,280 feet above sea level; for that reason Denver is known as the Mile-High City.
Other interesting facts about the state of Colorado:
Colorado has the highest average elevation of any state.
At its lowest point, 3,315 feet: where the Arikaree River flows into the northwest corner of Kansas, Colorado is still more than a thousand feet higher than Minnesota’s highest point: 2,301 feet at the summit of Eagle Mountain.
Denver is also the home of the Denver Mint. (Take a US coin out of your pocket… if you see a “D” stamped on the obverse, or front-side, of the coin – usually right near the date of issue) then your coin was minted at the Denver Mint.
We took a walk around Denver and then headed to a park in Wheatridge, Colorado.
Wheatridge is a suburb of Denver, about fifteen miles to the west. Here, Don showed me the “Front Range” of the Rocky Mountains.
Those slopes you see me are the beginning of the Rocky Mountains. If we were to fly west from here, we’d be in the Rocky Mountains all the way to the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah some five hundred miles as the crow flies. As a matter of fact, the high deserts of Utah are still above 3,000 in elevation… the next time you’d see any low lands would be after you cross the Sierra Nevada Range of Western California!
Well, I suppose I will get this posted to you, fourth graders! Cousin Don is taking me to see something really old tomorrow and then he said he has a surprise for me! I can’t wait!
Until then, study hard!
Brownie – In Colorado
Colorado was the 38th state to join the United States; its state constitution was adopted and the state joined the union on August 01, 1876. As this was the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Colorado is also known as the Centennial State.The name Colorado comes from the Spanish word “Colorado” which means red. It gets its name from all the iron and feldspar in the rocks. These minerals make the rocks red. Here at the state capital in Denver, the actual height of one of the steps of this building is 5,280 feet above sea level; for that reason Denver is known as the Mile-High City.
Other interesting facts about the state of Colorado:
Colorado has the highest average elevation of any state.
At its lowest point, 3,315 feet: where the Arikaree River flows into the northwest corner of Kansas, Colorado is still more than a thousand feet higher than Minnesota’s highest point: 2,301 feet at the summit of Eagle Mountain.
Denver is also the home of the Denver Mint. (Take a US coin out of your pocket… if you see a “D” stamped on the obverse, or front-side, of the coin – usually right near the date of issue) then your coin was minted at the Denver Mint.
We took a walk around Denver and then headed to a park in Wheatridge, Colorado.
Wheatridge is a suburb of Denver, about fifteen miles to the west. Here, Don showed me the “Front Range” of the Rocky Mountains.Those slopes you see me are the beginning of the Rocky Mountains. If we were to fly west from here, we’d be in the Rocky Mountains all the way to the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah some five hundred miles as the crow flies. As a matter of fact, the high deserts of Utah are still above 3,000 in elevation… the next time you’d see any low lands would be after you cross the Sierra Nevada Range of Western California!
Well, I suppose I will get this posted to you, fourth graders! Cousin Don is taking me to see something really old tomorrow and then he said he has a surprise for me! I can’t wait!
Until then, study hard!
Brownie – In Colorado
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