November 4, 2016

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: spooky stories writing due Monday

Bring headphones from home to keep at school for Raz-kids program. To log in at home, go to https://www.raz-kids.com/, press the student log in button and sign into sjones124

Poppy fundraiser and Veteran's Food Drive donations are now being collected.  Bring items such as canned goods, tea, coffee, muffin mix and rice.  Items such as toilet paper and soap is also helpful.

What did we do today?

• For Fresh Air Friday, we first watched two videos.  The first one was to get us excited about paleontology.  During the second one, we had to carefully watch for the steps that a paleontologist does when they find a fossil or dig site.  Paleontologists jacket their fossils with a protective coat to remove the fossil from the ground.  They also protect the site with tin foil around the fossils and plastic so that they can return the next day.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7zo2zY1Zqg&feature=related 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjhDV_GzTM8
• As paleontologists, we had to prospect, map, observe and document a site in the Whispering Woods that we felt might have fossils.  We found a site first, then mapped the area by creating a meter grid with bamboo sticks and string.  After we finished, Ms. Jones or Ms. Cowdy would take a picture of our grid and we received the GPS coordinates to our site.  We then documented our observations and drew a picture of our grid in our paleontology field guides.  Some of us believe we have a legitimate fossil find in our dig sites.
• We had a music practice today with Room 5 for our assembly next Thursday.

Questions:

1. What is our next unit in gym? Basketball
2. If we did find fossils, how many fossils will we have found?
3. Are we going to look in other areas like the nature grounds for fossils?
4. What is the next activity we are going to do in science?
5. What are the other classes doing for the Remembrance Day assembly?
6. Where will we go to find fossils, if we go to other places?