Mr. Toft and I were very fortunate to be interviewed on CBC Ottawa Morning yesterday. Kathleen Petty is the host of the show and she was a lot of fun to talk to. We were being asked questions about portablerecorder.ca, our trip to Brazil and podcasting. If you would like to hear the interview you can click here.

Ceolacanth is a prehistoric fish. It was thought that it died 65 million years ago!! In the mid 1700’s it was found in Africa!! Since then more sightings have happened!!! WOW!!! Go to: http://www.dinofish.com/

100 million years ago cephalopods lived under water. They were related to cuttlefish and squid. prehistoric fish and shark with the rule of eat or be eaten. Then 135 million years later the BIG BANGhappened, there the Earth with no dinosaurs NOTHING! Except the surviving mammals than wooly mammoths, ancient people, than the Ice Age. Weather under 50, death cold!! next 500 years we still were  not here but, are our ancestors were. then came the Meglodon a HUGEprehistoric shark it could swallow an adult whole!!  There are lots of more prehistoric animals, if you want to find out more go towww.Discoverykids.com Or read Dinosaur books.

65 million years ago the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. It was a nice sunny day in the late cretaceous period, it started to get warm and dark than……. POW!! It stuck the BIG BANG!! Forest fires everywhere almost all life died. Cockroaches Dragonflies and burl mammals survived. When everything cleared up it started to acid rain and about 70% of the surviving mammals died.

THE END

Egypt

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/egypt/

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancientegypt.htm

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Greece

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/

http://greece.mrdonn.org/

Rome

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/

http://www.rome.mrdonn.org/games.html

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancientrome.htm

China

http://www.china.mrdonn.org/

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/history/index.htm

Africa

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/index.htm

http://www.africa.mrdonn.org/

Maya

http://mayas.mrdonn.org/dailylife.html

http://www.mayankids.com/

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/southamerica/before1500/history/maya.htm

Aztec

http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/place.html

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/southamerica/before1500/history/aztec.htm

Vikings

http://www.theancientweb.com/explore/content.aspx?content_id=32

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/history/earlymiddle/vikings.htm

E=mc2

E=Energy

m=mass

c2=speed of light

I am on a break from my sessions in Toronto and I logged onto the computer. What a surprise…all these comments from my students. I forgot that today is Thursday and you are all in the computer lab.

You are making me feel quite homesick. I am looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday and to meeting Austin. I have another presentation to give tomorrow morning, some sessions to attend and then the drive back to Ottawa.

I haven’t had anytime in Toronto to go anywhere except in the hotel where I am staying. They are keeping us very busy. I can see from my window that it is a nice day and I am hoping to get out for a bit of a walk. I realized that I haven’t been outside since Tuesday evening, isn’t that weird?

Looking forward to being back at South March. Have a fun long weekend.

Mrs. Smith