Military Box

Thanks to all the parents who so generously sent in items for our military box.  We collected a lot of items to send along with our letters.

A Cookie Dig!!!

We had a lot of fun learning about fossils this week.  As a culminating activity, we learned

how difficult the job of a palentologist is by doing a dig of our own.  The students were

given a chocolate chip cookie and had to map where the chips were prior to digging.

Then, they where given two toothpicks to extract their chips (fossils) from the cookie

 without breaking them. After this activity, they all had a better understanding of how

careful and patient a paleontologist must be to extract real fossils. Also, they have

 a better understanding of how hard their work must be chipping

 away at rock.