Today we continued to work on our animal stories. Many children offered to be peer editors and gave suggestions. Remember, the goal is improve your beginning and ending, while keeping your story's events in a logical order. We should be finishing up those stories this week.

We also added a few homonyms to our spelling dictionaries: right, write, to, too, two

For Math, we calculated how old we are...in minutes! First we reviewed how many days are in a year, how many hours are in a day, and how many minutes are in an hour. With that information, we completed a journal page that asked us to calculate...

Your age: 8 or 9
How many days old were you on your most recent birthday?
How many hours is that?
How many minutes?

We talked about leap year and figured out how many children were alive February 29, 2000 (not many). Most students were only around for the extra day of the year in 2004 and 2008.

We played the Place Value Game and the girls smoked the boys!

During rotation, we continued to read in our explorer booklets. We took notes on what we learned and shared with our teammates.

This afternoon, we reviewed weathering (mechanical and chemical) and I introduced the children to Agent Erosion. His job: Pick Up, Move, & Deposit. There were three major agents: wind, water, and ice. Check out the power point below. There are many hyperlinks embedded, including two Tim and Moby cartoons.