Nico completed his interactive calendar. He read and explained all his vocabulary words. He practiced counting money by playing a money game. He completed activities pertaining to the study of light energy and learning about lidar.

Colson learned about the properties used to identify minerals: color, streak, luster, cleavage and fracture, density, hardness, and special properties. We watched a video showing how cleavage differs from fracture, and different types of cleavage in different minerals.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words, finished her calendar talk activities, learned about the 3 types of matter, and made gas by mixing
vinegar and baking soda which blew up a balloon.

Teddy completed his interactive calendar, read and discussed his vocabulary words, worked on his phonics activities, learned about the 3 types of matter, and made a gas using vinegar and baking soda which blew up a balloon.

Aiden read the texts "Details of Evolutionary Transition from Fish to Land Animals Revealed" and "A Day in the Life of a Paleontologist". We discussed text evidence of Tiktaalik being a transitional fossil. He completed the lesson review questions.

Nico completed his interactive calendar, read and discussed his vocabulary words, and built his obstacle avoidance robot.

Aiden removed his fossil cast from the mold he created yesterday. He examined his specimen. He completed the lab "It's Time for a Change" where he drew four transitional fossil body plans between an ancient whale ancestor and modern whale. He watched an animation of whale evolution and read about transitional fossils. He observed a diagram showing the transition of an ancient horse ancestor to modern horse and we discussed.

Colson reviewed how minerals form. He learned about silicate versus non-silicate minerals: native elements, halides, sulfates, carbonates, oxides and sulfides. He identified a non-silicate versus a silicate from two chemical formulas of minerals.

Aiden reviewed the types of fossils. He completed the Investigation "Analyze the Age" where he used the laws of superposition to relative age date fossils in rock layers. He reviewed relative age dating, absolute age dating, the geologic time scale and extinction events.

Libby completed her interactive calendar, read and discussed her vocabulary words,
finished her calendar talk activity, worked on her phonics lesson, put together her daily sentence puzzle, read her barometer and wrote her findings in her logbook, and predicted today's weather.