Do you have a cat, dog, hamster, gerbil or maybe even an imaginary pet that you feel poetic about? To gear up for April's National Poetry Month celebration, MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids and Flashlight Press want to celebrate with poems for our four-legged, furry friends. Put your thoughts and feelings into a poem and submit with a photo (or hand-drawn pictures) of your pet. Poems will be judged by author Thad Krasnesky. The winning poems and pet's photos will be highlighted in a MEET ME AT THE CORNER video podcast during 2010. See rules and regulations below for prizes and details at www.pawsforpoetry.org and write on!

As they wrapped up their study of astronomy and geology, Deanna Ellisor's third-graders found out first-hand what it takes to be a geologist when John Gruener visited from NASA to speak with them about rock formations on the earth and in space. Our character cam caught the presentation at its tail end as they were pondering the question, "Why isn't Pluto considered a planet anymore?" After the question and answer session, each budding scientist went with magnifying glass in hand to inspect the samples that Mr. Gruener brought from the Space Center of a Moon rock and a Mars meteor. He also shared the earth rocks and fossils as well as some meteorites that he's found in his work in the field as a geologist.