September 21, 2011

     The third graders have begun a geography project during which they will create globes of imaginary planets using pumpkins.
     At this early stage they are learning to find and identify the continents on globes of the earth, and they are adding continents to their pumpkin globes.
     Some of them are also identifying oceans on globes of the earth.  (Did you know that the earth is now considered to have five oceans?) The students will decide which areas of their pumpkin globes could be considered oceans, and give their oceans names when we meet for the next class.