The second-graders in Lisa Soldati's class at B. Gale Wilson Elementary School are full of rain forest factoids.
Sloths are the slowest mammals in the world.
The periwinkle flower has medicinal uses. Anacondas can swallow a jaguar whole. Their copious knowledge is just one of the building blocks of B. Gale Wilson's recently anointed status as a California Distinguished School for 1999-2000. The Fairfield campus, which serves some 900 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, shares the distinction this year with 223 schools statewide. B. Gale Wilson also picked up an even-more unusual award for Excellence in Arts Education.