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Puppet Science!

After several months of grumpiness and confusion in the science department we finally came to the realization at some point in December that there is still plenty of time ahead to a) end up with a teacher who makes physics fun, exciting and understandable or b) hate physics.  But that there was no reason for us continue on miserably just because some book suggested physics as their eighth grade science step :) We could choose to switch over to the science that Kayla is actually excited about!  Which would be pretty much anything related to animals...so we ordered a book about Mammals and continued watching backyard birds and reading National Geographic articles and watching Nature and Wild! and Oregon Field Guide and even pulled out my old Biology 101 textbook and I now have a much happier scientist on my hands!  (I expected the Biology textbook to go by the wayside quickly, but she is still enthusiastically outlining~full blown Roman Numeral style which she absolutely resisted doing with the history I thought she should try it with earlier in the year~and writing down new vocabulary and reading it. Although she just shakes her head and sighs when I tell her how much she would probably be reading in a night in a college class.)



Sirenians



Cetaceans

Rodentia



Lagomorpha



Insectivora

Last weekend she volunteered to help me man my paper bag puppet table at the community college family fun day and decided to turn it into a science project. So we had a sample puppet to represent every order of mammals: 



Artiodactyla



 



Monotremata









Perissodactyla







Pinnipedia





Chiroptera





Carnivore





Marsupial





Primate



Proboscidea

I'm Back!!!

Hi everybody! Sorry it has been so long since my last post, I have been very busy. I recently switched my science classes from Physics (yuck) to Biology! It has been much more interesting, and even though I am only in the 2nd chapter I am already glad that I have been learning Greek and Latin. All those roots come in handy when I am trying to figure out what all the new vocab words mean. I also started memorizing Collossians, I know the first 6 verses pretty well so far, but it has been really cool because we have a Bible written in Greek, so I can kind of translate it into English. We just finished studying the Civil War in history, and right now are studying how different countries tried to gain independence. In math I am learning how to graph equations (very confusing) and how to write equations using two points on a graph. I have two different logic books I have been using lately. One that teaches the rules of logic, the other discusses common logic mistakes. Right now I am reading a book called the Scarlet Pimpernel  which is about the aristocrats. I am still very interested in birds, and would love to get any cool bird pictures you might have! I have been receiving lots of postcards thanks to postcrossings.com, which is a website where you get to send and receive postcards from all over the world.
Love, Kayla B. <3