Monday, November 17, 2008

Monday, Monday

Mondays are always interesting. The fun over the week-end to the reality of back to work. Over the week-end we went to the Ford Mansion. It served as George Washington's Winter Headquarters during the revolutionary war (http://www.nps.gov/archive/morr/morr1.htm). Knowing that we were standing on the same ground as George Washington was very exciting. The mansion was stunning Georgian style home. Learning what the Ford family did to help us win our freedom from England was fascinating and makes one wonder if you would be willing to do the same today.

Today we started our experiment on photosynthesis. We have a positive control and a negative control. We will be observing our leaves over the next 10 days. What happens if the leaf is still attached to the plant but is covered? What happens if it is unattached in water? Unattached in water but covered? Unattached, covered, and no water? Unattached, uncovered, but no water, etc.

Swimming and Phys Ed rounded out the day. They are really enjoying the gym class. Today involved warm-up exercises and a few games involving those fun little scooters. They scooted around, played a little basketball and just had fun.

Warming up on a giant ball. What could be better?

Streeeeeettttch.....You can reach those toes!

Taking a break.

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