We began our session by finishing our final sentence and picture on Danny’s Mummies in the Morning project (based on the historical fiction novel by Mary Pope Osborne). We added that the story takes place in Ancient Egypt and included a picture of a world map. We will label the map tomorrow to put the finishing touches on the project. For our Winter Olympics project, we watched videos of the Olympic torch traveling to the stadium and the lighting of the cauldron at the Opening Ceremonies. We also studied the sporting events of curling, figure skating, and cross-country skiing with videos and discussion. Danny was quite fascinated with the tricks in the figure skating! We explored the Olympic vocabulary of stadium and torch; which Danny wrote on the page for his project. We also used a tracking sheet to look at the medals won so far. Our sheet has 10 countries represented. We looked up the flags to label our sheet with the names of the countries. We then wrote all of the medals by type that each country has won. We talked about who has the most in each category of gold, silver, and bronze. Using our world map, we found the ten countries and compared them in relation to each other and to Florida. We discussed the pride and joy the athletes and the countries feel with their hard work and success.