Last week, Wasey shared her baby basket. I oohed and ahhed... and told Room 8 how much I love it when they bring in things related to what we're studying. It lets me know they're going home and thinking about what they're learning and applying it to something they already know.Thus the post on Kacey, Orion, and Sam.
Kacey is Mr. Outdoors! He asked if he could bring in some obsidian. Of course I said, "OF COURSE!"
Not only did Kacey bring in the 'volcanic glass', but he told us how he had used an antler to try and make an arrowhead. I told Room 8 this was called 'soft percussion'... and using a rock to try and make something from the obsidian would be called 'hard percussion.' 
We talked about the fact that obsidian is also called 'volcanic glass' and why. At that point, Kacey pulled out some little shards of obsidian that had broken off when he was trying to make the arrowhead.
He brought in several pieces... and passed them around so Room 8 could have a closer look.
Ashley was checking out a piece. I think in this picture she was commenting on how sharp some of the points were. 
I kept trying to get a great picture of Kacey... a view of him looking at the camera.
Room 8 started to laugh after ever snap of my camera when they would see Kacey turn his head away at the EXACT same time.
I think Kacey got a bit frustrated with his photographing, blogging teacher snapping so many pictures of him.
He decided to get rid of the obsidian...putting it back into his back, hoping the camera would go away. It did.
Thank you for bring it in to share, Kacey!
We studied the tundra. Each student selected an animal from the tundra, did a little research on that animal, and then made a type of mobile with their animal and it's place in the food chain. Orion did his on the Arctic Hare.
As I'm sitting here blogging, I cannot remember where Orion said he got this. 
He brought in an Arctic Hare skin to show us. It was absolutely beautiful...and SO soft! As you can see, Kaia is thinking it would be wonderful to rest her head on.
Austin just wanted to touch it.
Orion walked around the room so everyone ... well, everyone who had clean hands... (we had a lot of sudden urges to wash hands!) could touch it.
Orion, thank you for bringing it to share with us.
Sam... he's our abalone guy.
He not only showed us his shell, but he told us a little about preparing abalone to eat. He said you have to be careful or it will be tough or chewy. 
The outside of the shell...
The inside of the shell...
Sam... thank you for bringing your abalone shell, AND for the wonderful information you shared with us too.
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