Wonderopolis

Did you notice that Ms. Lirenman added the Wonderopolis widget to the right side of our class blog? Go look if you haven't seen it but come right back.  Now that you have noticed it you are probably wondering why?

While learning with friends (yes Ms. Lirenman spends a lot of time learning new things too) she was introduced to the Wonderopolis website.  Each day Wonderoplis puts up a question to get us wondering.  The questions cover all different topic areas.

Today's question was "Where is the Hottest Place on Earth?" Immediately we had some ideas but first we had to close our eyes and really think about the question.  Then we shared our thinking by turning and talking to our friends.  Ms. Lirenman noticed a common theme as most of us thought the desert was the hottest place on earth.

The cool thing about Wonderopolis is that they answer all the questions that they ask. If you click on the question of the day you are taken to their website, and more specifically to the answer.   Today we were really curious and had to check the web site to get the "real" answer.   As you can imagine  we were super excited to see that a desert is the hottest place on the earth.  But what was even better is that we were able to watch a little video and learn even more about which desert in particular.  If you are interested you can watch the video too by following this link.

After we watched the video we wondered some more and just had to ask the Wonderopolis people, so we did.  And guess what, they answered our question.

Wondering is wonderful and we need to do it every single day.  What are you wondering about?