Northwest Energy Presentation Today

Yes, we had a surprise presentation today from Northwest Energy on electrical safety. Many great tips of what to do in the house, yard, vehicles, etc. to stay safe. Also, she had an awesome interactive visual with lots of electricity voltage flowing through to show what can happen in many different scenarios. Have a great discussion about the presentation and if they can tell you at least 4 cool facts, write "thank you- NW Energy" in the planner. I am sure you heard about our math lesson today. Well, if not, we sort of got "off track" from the real lesson. We were doing Math 4 Today and we had a problem about a girl purchasing some items and then part of her cost was paying tax on the merchandise. Well, that lead to a discussion about what sales tax is and how it adds to the cost of items you buy, and how we don't have it here in MT, etc. Well this discussion lead to talking about percentages and interest, etc. which lead to talking about credit/debit cards and how you ending up paying much much more for things because of interest if you don't pay off the cards right away. Anyway, the kids had lots of great questions and next thing you knew, it was time for HE/PE. But I guess we can look at the bright side of it, we had a great lesson in economics and I think you will be happy to know, lots of them said they will never have a credit card!!! We'll see on that one as they get older!!!! Owls in the Family-discuss what happened in the book today and the fact you learned about Great Horned Owls egg hatching. Riding Freedom-who is the book named after? Should know after today's reading. Tomorrow is Library so get those books back. Have a great night.