Category: School

I have Painted Lady Butterflies. They just came out of the chrysalises a couple of days ago; Audrey calls them crystals.

They are not real big. Momma told me they were mating last night, I got to watch them. I am waiting for eggs!

Here is the caterpillar/butterfly chart

• 9 June received caterpillars in mail-all wiggle
• 10 June Eating, growing, spinning “webs”
• 11 June 18-20 mm long
• 12 June approximately 30-35mm long! Lots of wiggling, more “web thinga majigys”
• 13 June approximately 40 mm long
• 14 June Making chrysalis’s upside down, 9:30 p.m all hanging upside down
• 15 June Chrysalises completed
• 17 June Chrysalises hardened, time to move to butterfly garden home
• 21 June 3 Butterflies emerged overnight, I missed because I was at Reece and Cardin’s house. Messing up their house with “Meconium” (leftover tissue from developing into butterflies)
• 21 June 2 Butterflies emerged before 10:30, I missed because I was at Scout Camp.
• Put flowers in cage and put sugar water of fresher flowers to feed butterflies.
• 24 June Butterflies mating, hoping for eggs!

They look nice. I would recommend growing butterflies.

Scout camp was fun. I got to make a rocket; it was fun. I got to earn beads doing activities; it was fun. I learned that the number one pollution in Elkhart, IN can be reduced (I don’t remember what it is but it was with the fish). I got four shots total in the middle (bulls eyes) in both times I shot the BB’s; it was fun. I got to play with Reece and Cardin, Cody and Lucas, and James; it was fun 🙂 !

It was fun, I want to do it next year.

p.s. My very favorite things were nature walks, the BB’s and seeing the fish.

…and they are caterpillars. They are between 18 mm and 20 mm (2 cm) long! Continue reading 5 New Pets

OOOOPPPSSSS 🙂 ! “Quiston” is spelled “question”.

I asked this question the second blog ago.
Do you know what type of eggs this nest has in it?

… and the little(blue) one is a robin egg.

The big! three times ones, which equals three, are “Cowbird” eggs. This is a Cowbird. The Momma Cowbirds “steal space” in what ever kind of bird nests that they can find pretty much to lay their eggs there.

The Cowbird babies hatch before the other ones and they are bigger. They steal most of the food that the other birds Momma brings. They get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger…. and start another mischievous family.

Today I did research on sharks. Continue reading Sharks!!!!

(Momma is letting me write this myself today!)

Trivia Question! How do you know which side of a worm is the head ?

Tickle it and See wich side lafs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reley seeeeeeee the bump on the worm piktcher ? That is the tale, did you know that?

SOooooo, the batom side wood lafe on the worm in the pikcther. “he he he he!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who did that ?”

Do you know the difference between a boy and a girl worm?

There is none !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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We learned about baby animals in Nature Nuts. I got to hold a “gobble gobble

gobble” poult — a turkey baby 🙂 . I also got to hold a baby “snakeling” and a baby “turtleling”.

It was fun. I got to make a baby bunny using felt.

Salamanders and frogs are amphibians. That means that they live part of their life on land, and part of their life in water.

First a female salamander (or frog) lays eggs in the aqua. When the eggs hatch, they look like tadpoles. A salamander tadpoles have their gills sticking out at the sides of their heads. As they grow, they start growing legs (frogs also start losing their tails). When they are full grown, you probably know what a frog look likes. A salamander looks a lot like a lizard but it does not have scaly skin.

Salamanders breathe and absorb things through their skin. They like to stay wet and moist, so they like to stay on land, hidden under logs. Their homes are circles about the size of a nickel or a dime. They eat bugs and worms. They do not have teeth, so they “shake up their food” and swallow it whole!

The biggest land salamander is the Jefferson salamander. I have no idea why it is named that! I did ask Miss Krista, my Nature Nuts teacher, and she said “I do not know!”. She said that a salamander loses its tail or toe sometimes and regenerates it. That is a long word that means growing it back!

A hybrid salamander example is a Blue Spotted Salamander Momma and a Jefferson Salamander Daddy. But doesn’t have to be that way; it could be a Blue Spotted and a Tiger Salamander. They both have to be salamanders though!

I held Dino, a salamander in prison! The Naturalist probably obably obably study him (or her) and I know that they bring him (or her) for children to look at. Miss Krista thinks that Dino is a girl. Miss Krista told us how to identify if it is a male or a female, but who cares? (Well, a scientist might).

Miss Krista showed us a trap for salamanders. That helps scientists study them when they catch one. They use a trap with liver (I said to use liverwurst so it doesn’t go to waste, it is disgusting!). Salamanders love liver! This time they put bologna in it. They did not like it as much as liverwurst 🙂

After touching an amphibian WASH YOUR HANDS (because Momma says you have to!)

Thank you Miss Krista for teaching me all you know about salamanders.