Term 2 Blog #1

Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Joyce's reading:
Many discoveries in palontology were made in the 18th century. In 1787, the very first dinosaur bone was found in New Jersy. Since people did not know what it was, they decided to put it in a storage room, and thus, the forgot all about it. In 1788, Beaufort discovered another dinosaur bone, this time in Kentucky. Beaufort overestimated the size and strength of the dinosaur. He pronounced it to have the strength of a tiger. he also announced that the dinosaur to be extinct. SOon, many more dinosaur bones were discovered, and sent to France to be pieced together by George Cuvier. Cuvier added to the idea that catastrophies happened on earth which caused the extinction of dinosaurs. This idea opposed Thomas Jefferson's idea that the world was carefully ordered and that nothing becomes extinct.

Pre-IB, Pre-IB!! ... i think im gonna go. tho there are quite a lot of pros and cons. for example, im really looking forward to pre-IB camp, but then, there's also another year of science fair to consider. ugghhh!!! i already did 3 years of science fair (including this year, i also went to the district science fair in grade 7), two science celebrations (grade 7 and 6), and the heritage fair (grade 6). >< that is a total of 6 GREAT BIG PROJECTS that last A COUPLE MONTHS!!
geez i hate projects that take such a long time.