Aiden completed the Investigation "Plot It" where he plotted the distance and time of a train to show the changing velocity. He answered the follow-up questions. He calculated the slope and we talked about how it is the train's velocity. He used the PhET Interactive Simulation: The Moving Man which simulated position, velocity and acceleration.

Colson was absent today. I took the period to lesson plan.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk, put together her daily sentence puzzle, worked on her phonics activities, read her barometer and wrote in her logbook, and completed several weather activities.

Teddy completed his interactive calendar, read and discussed his vocabulary words, finished his calendar talk, put together his daily sentence puzzle, worked on his phonics activities, checked his barometer and wrote in his logbook, and completed several activities about the weather.

Nico completed his interactive calendar, read and discussed his vocabulary words, played his money counting game, and explored the concepts of electricity.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk activity, read her barometer, worked on her phonics activity/short a, and looked at the inside of a real chicken egg.

Teddy completed his interactive calendar, read and discussed his vocabulary words, finished his calendar talk, worked on his phonics lesson/short a, checked his barometer, looked at the inside of a real chicken egg, and made a notation in his logbook.

Aiden learned about velocity and vectors. He analyzed a diagram of constant velocity versus changing velocity. He read a the text "GPS to the rescue!" which discussed how GPS uses position, speed, and direction to calculate changing position.

Aiden learned about speed. He used the formula average speed=total distance/total time to calculate the average speed in the Math Connection #1-3. He calculated total distance traveled and displacement in the 3-Dimensional Thinking.

Colson used the rock and mineral collection in the lab to identify different minerals based on their properties: luster, hardness, color, special properties.