i want to be an astronaut.

today i went on a tour of the international space station. you can too. click here to watch the videos.

the day i found quartz in a normal sandstone park

the quartz-hunters. these are their stories.

i found a quartz in victoria park. i polished it in a cup with water and an old toothbrush. now i'm putting it on display. did you know that each piece of quartz is worth money? you SHOULD know that. find some and take it to a jeweler to know how many dollars it is worth.

eat

we learned about food groups. here is a meal i made with toy food. it has all four food groups. and a cupcake.

trap

i learned about fruit flies and made a trap using a bowl, plastic wrap, apple cider vinegar, dish soap, and a toothpick.

spring

in our neighbours' yard we saw the first butterfly of the year.  it just finished migrating.  i think it is a monarch.

cams and cranks

papa gave me this simple machines building kit for my birthday. it comes with an activity book to learn all about cams and cranks. ted and i built the humanoid together, then daddy and i built the eagle.

i learned about amoebas

i drew the amoeba about to eat a fern particle. it is saying "i'm hungry, i'm going to form a food vacuole! check out my pseudopod! check out my nucleus too!"

interview with a manatee

i wanted a black and white video of wxyz.


[APOLOGY - cell phone microphone + blanket over mouth = difficult to hear -josh]

daddy - hello welcome to this episode of blog video news. this is our interview with wxyz the manatee. hello wxyz.
faz - wayyyyuuuuuuuuhhh.
daddy - can you speak english?
faz - yeah.
daddy - so you are a manatee. exactly how big are you?
faz - as big, well i'm a baby one but normal ones are as big as your vaaaaan.
daddy - as big as our van, wow. and what do you eat?
faz - sea plants.
daddy - mmmm, sea plants, that sounds tasty. those must be hard on your teeth.
faz - look at this here! it's a ship! uh-oh, there's a propeller on it!
daddy - a propeller on the ship, oh no!
faz - waaaayyyuuuuuhhhh!
daddy - you're acting agitated. is that propeller somehow dangerous to you?
faz - well, propellers on boats can kill manatees. they can chop right through you.
daddy - oh my goodness. that's terrible. thanks for letting us know, manatee. is there anything else we should know about you?
faz - weeeeellll, my flippers have little fingernails on them.
daddy - they do? i never would have imagined that. wowzers.
faz - so we can grab stuff with our flippers.
daddy - hey, you seem to spend your life underwater, but you need to come up to breathe. how do you sleep?
faz - well, you see we open up our nostrils, put them up over the water and then we go to sleep.
daddy - and then you go to sleep with your nostrils above the water. that's great!
faz - like this! mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. like that!
daddy - thanks manatee. is there anything else you want to say before we go?
faz - well. . . we do make great rides! ha!
daddy - that's great. see you next time, wxyz. bye-bye!

salamander friend

today we found salamanders in the woods.

i drew a picture of one in my journal.  we made a boat out of bark and floated them on dead man's pond.