Monday questions

Grd 2 HO LIB had some great questions. So did 4 Mrs. C's Class.

Here are some answers:
You had some questions about our weather here.
It was 45 degree fahrenheit when we went outside to practice taking measurements this morning. It might not get cold enough for us to see any snow while we are here, but you never know. We are all hoping to see some snow. The top wind speed (gust) was 5.2 miles per hour this morning. For those of you who have talked about hurricanes and weather, you might be interested in knowing that the barometric pressure is dropping. What does that mean for tomorrow's weather?

Will we see the Northern Lights again?
I sure hope so. I'm going to look every night, unless it is really cloudy.

What will you be doing every day?
We just went over about 50 different things we might record each day. Here are just a few of the things we have already talked about and practiced doing:
tree coring (making a hole in a tree and taking out a small piece)
measuring the diameter of a tree
measuring the height of a tree (we get to use a really cool tool for this, much easier than a measuring tape - it is called a clinometer)
identifying different plants within a certain transect(space)
identifying whether a tree is growing on concave, convex, flat or sloped soil (look up concave and convex if you don't know what they mean)
identifying tree species

We haven't done any digging in the soil yet. I think we might do that this afternoon. I'll write more this evening and post photos then.

Keep voting on here for polar bear names and I'll tally the results today.

Miss Santoro