Paleontology

"A science dealing with the life of past geological periods as known from fossil remains."

Today my little second grade charges were studying fossils and dinosaurs. Which posed some interesting moments as the book kept talking about the fossils that were millions of years old and the earth being billions of years old and then some little boy piped up to say that he didn't really think the earth was that old. So then I'm trying to acknowledge him, because I sorta agree with him (although I do think the earth really could be that old, just hasn't been around that long - I mean Adam wasn't created as an infant so the earth probably wasn't either - but I digress.) And then I'm also trying to explain why the book says what it does - basically that most scientists believe what the books says but that some people disagree. And then somehow this becomes a discussion on whether people come from apes - so I'm diving into the theory, not fact discussion again. And then some girl asks where trees came from - but bless her, another girl piped up with "God made them" and that satisfied the questioner and she didn't care anymore what I had to say. :)

We also had to go get their pictures taken today. It's always an adventure when you have to pass out multiple pieces of paper to kids when you don't know any of their names! But it went well.

I also read Piggie Pie to the class today, which they enjoyed - kids always enjoy that book. :)

And that was my day pretty much in reverse order! haha don't know why I did it that way.