Nico completed his interactive calendar. He reviewed and discussed his vocabulary words. He delved into the connection between mass, stored energy, and motion. He discovered what happens with the transfer of energy during a collision.

Nico completed his interactive calendar. We modified his solar powered car and when the sun comes out tomorrow, we will test it out. He read and discussed potential (stored) energy, kinetic energy, speed, and how they are related.

Aiden read about how minerals are formed and observed the diagrams: as magma and lava cool, by metamorphism, from solutions. He read about how minerals are classified: silicates and nonsilicates. He classified two minerals.

Aiden took a 5-question lesson review quiz on volcanoes. We discussed the correct answers. We began our Minerals lesson. He completed the brainstorming and vocabulary questions #1-4. He read and we discussed the following terms: mineral, elements, atoms, compound, matter, crystal.

Colson reviewed all the key terms of the plate tectonics lesson. He completed the visual summary and lesson review.

Chris read about convergent boundaries, continent-continent collisions, continent-ocean collisions, ocean-ocean collisions, divergent boundaries, transform boundaries, tectonic plates and plate tectonics. We analyzed the diagrams and he answered the questions.

Libby completed her interactive calendar. She read and discussed her vocabulary words. She finished her calendar talk activity. She learned about how animals change their environment by studying the beaver.

Teddy completed his interactive calendar. He read and discussed his vocabulary words. He worked on his calendar talk activity. He began learning about how animals change their environment by studying the beaver.

Chris read about ocean trenches and we analyzed the diagram of seafloor spreading at the mid-ocean ridge and deep-ocean trench.

Aiden read a passage about the dangers of volcanic eruptions. He watched a video the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980 and read a summary of the events of the eruption. He completed the volcanoes end of lesson questions and we discussed the correct answers.