Thursday, Porcupine Spotted!
Yippee! We saw a real live porcupine today. It was walking in a person's front yard. It was probably about 40 pounds, basically the size of a medium dog. It was cool!
We caught more small mammals, measured and released them. We'll have a data analysis tomorrow and I'll share that on Monday.
Just for fun, Mr. Wolfe, one of our team members here, was testing us with riddles. One of those riddles was this: Why are all manhole covers round?
Now at first, this seems silly post, but it is actually a geometry question. I'll leave it to you all to solve. Let us know!
Did you know that we teachers here are sharing all of our material and energy with each other. This makes it fun, interesting, and builds a sense of community that we are all sharing our learning here with all of you.
So, I'd love to see you all look at the other teachers blogs. If you go to www.earthwatch2.org/lff/buesching09_team1 then click on meet the team and begin looking at the other teachers' blogs. You've now met most of them, so that's kind of cool anyway!
As for some questions to answer.
Alyssa, I love the humor! Thanks for making me smile with your comment!
Mr. Hull's class...you are definitely on the manhole cover idea, and in fact it sounds as though you took exactly the same strategy line I did. Since you didn't blurt the answer, I went ahead and posted your comment. Thanks for your discretion. Now you have given a nice hint too
Some other questions came my way. They were no names. I probably won't post a no name, so be aware of that. I most likely won't post much in the way of particularly poor grammar. A few mistakes is acceptable. Starting with a lower case letter, missing punctuation, AND misspellings, amount to 3 major problems in what I would consider only 5 major things in a sentence. My students should know the 5 major things of a sentence. I'll tell you what, you could get your comments posted IF you tell us those 5 things, use those 5 in your sentence, AND sign it!!
You didn't know you'd get a grammar lecture!
We're having some problems posting pictures, so I'll keep trying on that. Meanwhile, you can access our Earthwatch team's community page that we are using to look at pictures and video of all of us in action. We all share this page and you'll see things that all of us have loaded up.
Get ready......wait for it.....here it comes......
Earthwatch Team Community Page
Hey, great idea just popped up! Mr. Wignall suggested this and I believe this is a super-de-duper idea! (Mr. Wignall is a teacher in Minnesota. He teaches middle school.)
- Go to my other teammembers blogs.
- Look around and READ stuff.
- Think of a question that would be good to ask that teacher.
- Tell ME your question through my blog.
- If I think it is a standout question, I'll video tape the teacher answering YOUR question using YOUR name and I'll post that video.
posted by Mr. Pembroke @ 5:42 PM
2 Comments:
Mr. P. We have figured out the manhole cover riddle. We guessed a bunch of different ideas, and then asked another question.....and that is what helped us figure it out. Our other question was, "Why aren't manhole covers square?" That is how we figured out the answer.
Mr. Hull's 5th grade
Hey Mr. P. it's Madi from your class and I have answers to some of your questions and the riddle. I just went to wiki answers and typed in the riddle as a question and it gave me three answers and they were 1. round comes out and goes back on a LOT faster than other shapes. 2. it is inpossible to drop a round lid into a smaller round hole 3. it is because round is the only shape that if turned or fliped over, it still stays the same length across the middle, but if use a square, rectangle, triangle, or any other shaped lid, it could be rotated and fall into the hole. So Mr. P. I don't know if any of those were right, but it was worth a try. Now about the question about what goes into a sentence. A compleate sentence has a capital at the begging, puncuation at the end, subject, predicent, and few spelling errors. Well anyways thanks for reading this.
Madison Anderson
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