Lack of Momentum

I'd been feeling like we just can't get into a routine and keep things moving lately. 

Then I looked at the calendar. 

There are 22 weekdays this month.

5 are public school scheduled days off~2 for Thanksgiving, 1 for Veteran's Day, 1 furlough day, 1 grading day

At least 2 were sick days

2 we took off to visit Justin in Hawaii

and today~Snow Day! 

So that leaves us  maybe 12 days of school for the month~mostly broken up into 2-3 day chunks (and 3 of those are Owen's early release days).  Now I'm thinking I should get a gold star if we manage to learn anything this month!

Birdies!

Just yesterday I was sitting at my kitchen window when the cutest bird appeared. Hmm, I said, I wonder what kind of bird that is? So I grabbed a camera and took picture after picture. I uploaded the two best ones, and I am almost positive that it is a Dark Eyed Junco! Then I decided that I wanted to see a lot more birds in our backyard, so I set out some pans of bird food, and some filled with water. I will be photographing as many as possible, but if anyone has cool bird photos I would love to see them (you don't have to know what kind they are.) Please either send them to my email or my mom's. If you don't know either email address then leave a note in the comments and we will get it to you. And if anyone has tips on how to get birds to your backyard I would love to hear them! Happy Birdwatching! 

Love, Kayla <3 

The Amazing Floating Carrot!!!

This carrot not only sinks, but with the help of ocean science (and a LOT of salt) I can make this ordinary carrot float! How cool is that! We are studying the ocean in order to justify our "field trip" to Hawaii. I got to see exactly how much denser salt water is.  Obviously dense enough to make a carrot float.

 

Rain!!!

We got to make our own water cycle by filling a jar with warm water then putting a bag full of ice above, which made the water evaporate (sorry about the photo) and then rain back down, just like the real water cycle!

Love, Kayla