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Midmorning With Aundrea - October 8, 2020 (Part 2)

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Midmorning With Aundrea - October 8, 2020 (Part 2)
Midmorning With Aundrea - October 8, 2020 (Part 2)

(Part 2 of 4) One Texas teacher is going all out to reach her kindergarten students using virtual learning.

Learning from home is a challenge for parents, students and teachers.

But one texas teacher is going all out to reach her young kindergartn class.

Melissa correa reports.

Watching lauren kinsler teach kindergarten is impressive& and exhausting.

Sot - lauren kinsler/kindergart en teacher, kilpatrick elementary: "it really has pu me outside of my comfort zone, but it's made me be more creative to figure out ways to reach them even though they're still at home.

Yeah.

21 five-year olds.

Lauren gets two hours to make the lesson stick!

Sot - lauren kinsler/kindergart en teacher, kilpatrick elementary: "we're competin with everything around them."

So far, she seems to be winning.

Sot - lauren kinsler/kindergart en teacher, kilpatrick elementary: "because we'r doing f.

So this is my flamingo hat."

D is for donut.

And p says& p.

Sot - lauren kinsler/kindergart en teacher, kilpatrick elementary: "when they tur their camera on and they see what i'm dressed up as, their whole faces light up."

Kilpatrick elementary parents are grateful.

One mom messaged& thank you for making learning so fun for all of us!

You make something so hard look and feel effortless.

Another writes, even my older child is glued to your zoom class.

I am blessed we have such a dedicated and determined teacher.

Sot - lauren kinsler/kindergart en teacher, kilpatrick elementary: "it's challenging t come up with different ways to keep them looking at the screen, so hearing that it's working, from the parent's point of view, really keeps me going."

As katy i-s-d approaches month two& vitual learning is beginning to feel like old hat& sot - lauren kinsler/kindergart en teacher, kilpatrick elementary: "in kindergarten we call it the broadway show.

We're like, okay go break a leg!"

Encore please!

From katy, i'm melissa correa!

The sale of what's believed to be one of the world's most complete t- rex skeletons, named stan, was expected to come in around 8 million dollars.

But a bidding war at christie's auction house smashed that estimate.

Cbs's ian lee reports.

It's a king's ransom for the king of the dinosaurs.

"where should w start?

At 3 million dollars?"

Christie's auction house offering a once in a lifetime opportunity of owning your own t-rex.

Paleontologists discovered stan in south dakota in 1992.

Standing 13 feet tall, 40 feet long and with an 11 inch tooth...the skeleton is made up of 188 bones.

"the reall interesting pathology about him is that two of the vertebrae in his neck had fused.

So in life, stan broke his neck, he survived, it healed, and he carried on being the biggest and baddest t.

Rex apex predator of the late cretaceous with a broken neck."

The baddest 67- million-year old thing - wasn't going to be cheap.

"3 million 20 thousand, 5 million 500 thousand, 10 million please, 19 please."

Taking bids from london and new york - it came down to a battle between two buyers..

With the gavel falling on... "for 27 million, 50 thousand dollars...and sold."

After fees, the final price for this tyrant lizard king was 31.8 million dollars...that doesn't include shipping and assembly.

Ian lee cbs news london the buyer remained anonymous.

But the previous world record for any dinosaur was sue, also a t-rex, sold to the chicago field museum in 1997 for 8.4 million dollars.

A man of action was also a man of philosophy.

A look at stan lee by his

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