Birds!

Macaw eating seeds

Petting parrots
One of the parrotsWe went to Nature Nuts and learned about birds. We saw a Senegal Parrot, an Amazon parrot, a macaw, some parakeets, Zebra Finches and one Finch she did not remember what kind it was.

You can tell a boy parakeet from a girl parakeet (on certain kinds) by the blue on his beak by his nose. If it is blue, it is a boy. The girls are white on certain kinds. It is considered an extra small parrot because of its beak. If it has a beak that looks like a parrot, it is considered a parrot!

Reading to classI had lots of fun there. I read a story. I think it was called “Who Made the Morning?” A little bird was looking to see who made this beautiful morning. He discovered God did! Then he went to discover where God lives. He learned God does not live anywhere, He is EVERYWHERE! IPirate Mark did pretty good except I got quiet every so often. Momma said that I need to learn to TALK LOUDER when I am reading.

I held one of the parrots (the Senegal). Miss Krista said I was a genuine pirate!

“Feeding” ChickadeesWhen we went outside, I tried to feed some Chickadees. Hand feed! IChickadee, a curious bird! stayed as still as I could, held out my hand with some food in it and went “st ts st”. Chickadees are very curious birds. If you do that long enough, they probably will eat out of your hand. But, they didn’t this time!Feeding Macaw

I fed the Macaw inside. It was fun. When I first tried it, it was a little scary. They are huge birds. They are strong too. This one bent the bars of one of its cages. His owner tried to bend it back, but she couldn’t.

A leaf footed shield bug

We always help clean up after class.

Momma’s getting brave!

Look what I made!

I started by cutting out the material. I used a pattern. We had to make the pattern longer. Momma was wanting to use the material for pajamas for Daddy but there wasn’t enough. “Can I have it? I want to learn to sew anyway!” Momma said “Ok” 🙂

Then I had to learn to make straight seams. Sorry no pictures of the cutting or learning to cut straight seams. My first ones looked like (yuck!) zig zags. The last ones where straight straight straight! Well, not that straight. There were not many wiggles.

I learned to sew on Mama’s sewing machine Using Momma’s machine

At first, I really made mistakes!! mistakes!! mistakes!! mistakes!! Tearing out mistakes

Here I am sewing (on oma’s machine) Sewing on Oma’s machine Now I am putting in elastic. Wow! That was quicker than I thought. Momma showed me a secret that I am not going to tell about getting the elastic done quicker.Putting in the elastic

Modeling

Modeling what I made!

I wanted to do this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I liked it! “Momma, can I make

a quilt now?”

Stay out of here crows!…

…”Any bird of brain will know you ar only stuffed with straw ” (leaves)

we made a… guess …(hint 1) s-k-a-r-o (hint 2) c-r-o-w!Strongest Scarecrow in the World!

We had raked the leaves. Adrian did not want to play in them. I played in them. I made myself a scarecrow! I am the Strongest Scarecrow in the World!

W. W. Denslow’s Scarecrow, Dorothy, and Toto 1900 (From Wikipedia)We are reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum. Here is a picture of Dorothy and the Scarecrow. W. W. Denslow drew the picture for the first printing. The picture is very artistic! I like it!

I am not going to tell you lots of it, because I want you to read it. The Scarecrow’s name is Scar-a-crow. Dorothy’s dog is Toto. Dorothy is Dorothy. “I want some brains”, the scarecrow says. He was made “only the day before yesterday.”

They meet up with a tin woodman (named the Tin Woodman). He became a tin woodman because he was a real man. He fell in love with a Munchkin. A witch made his axe magical and he kept cutting parts of him off. The tin tinker kept making tin body parts so the woodman could keep working. Eventually, he became all tin and forgot to oil himself and rusted!

They also meet a lion called the Cowardly Lion. He was born cowardly. He always was a lion so probably did not go through much changing. (Unless evolution is true, then he could have evolved from mud)

Lazy ScarecrowThey are off to see the wonderful wizard of Oz! Momma says the book is different than the movie. I like the book!

We made our own scarecrow. I hope when you read the book, you like it enough to make your own scarecrow. Please send me a picture if you do!

Scarecrow and friends

Trying to Blow Up the lab, as Boss Puts It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Always wear safety glasses!Science

Yesterday we were Trying to Blow Up the lab, well the Boss (geass who) Puts It that way.

Pour the substancerecipe :1 package of yeast

2 table spoons sugar

1 cup warm waterAttach balloon

Put the substance in small soda bottle.

What is happeningPut the balloon over the top.

Shake it lots! 8) 🙂

wate 🙁 🙁

The balloon should blow up! Because it prodosis carbon dioxide. It shows us that gas takes up space.

Our next experiment, we’re going to see if we can the balloon bigger (or blow up the lab!)

Watch carefully

Meteor Shower!

Momma woke me up (not exactly woke me up) it was more along the lines of brought me upstairs about 3:00 a.m. That was LATE.

Momma carried me upstairs. We went outside out the front door. Then we waited and looked. It is hard to find meteors!

I saw a lot of small ones. There was mostly small ones, but I saw two REALLY good ones. I enjoyed them and liked them.

We sang Our God is an Awesome God, so that I would remember that it was real and God did it. If we were the only ones looking at it, God would still have done it.

Momma helped me find them.  We had fun!  The meteor shower is called Perseids and it happens every August. Last night was a good night to see it because it was supposedly dark because the moon was new. Our sky was bright 🙁 .

Here’s a website that tells about it and some other neat things this month.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/11jul_greatperseids.htm