Blogging by the Dozen

Socks, Snakes and Science

By Tilly

First, my sock. I got the best sock yarn ever at Michaels the other day. I finally started the sock.

This is my sock. I got this far and then it was looking too big so I took it apart.

I cast on 56 stitches and then ribbed until the pink was almost finished. then I purled a row, because I like how that looks, and then I started knitting. 

The more I ripped out the bigger it looked. I started over again today and cast on 50 stitches. I'm still doing the ribbing but I think it will work. 

About snakes. I'm talking about my ring. One of the gold jewels fell off.

That was really annoying. I hope the other ones don't fall out. 

Now for science. We've been making slides and looking at them under the microscope. 

A tiny bug.

a thing that was alive and swimming around but then dried up.

fly wing and leg.

fly head

Spit.

more spit.

bubbles in the spit. They looked super cool.

bubbles in the spit after they dried.

I'll post pictures of my sock later.

School For Fun???

By Tilly

This morning me, Adalia, and Judah took some words out of our Wordly Wise books and wrote a page using the words. 

Here's my first one. The words were: adapt, efficient, gait, habitat, outmoded, quench, sear, wend, abrasion, corroborate, dehydrate, electrify, gingerly, gruesome, simulate, and surmise. 

I was inspired by the movie Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.

The job was gruesome but efficient. The group of surgeons had wended their way from across the state to corroborate. 

The world had slowly adapted the outmoded but amazing techniques again. 

 The gait of Ben Carson as he walked through the lobby of Johns Hopkins Hospital quenched the worries of the parents of the small girl.

 Ben and his team of surgeons had simulated the operation over and over and over. The 4-year-old girl had been electrified. when that happened the brain dehydrated and abrasions became scattered around the brain. 

 Ben and his team of surgeons would gingerly remove the seared parts of the brain.

 

Here's my second one. The words were: avid, concise, demean, emulate, excruciating, pervade, pseudonym, resilient, debris, exploit, miniature, onset, pathetic, quest, salvage.

Here are some quality traits of the Beatles. I'll make it concise.

John is so avid, he went on a quest for Yoko because she was so pretty (or so he thought). He demeans Paul and Ringo, because their noses are so big.

Ringo is a pseudonym for Richard. But he is resilient. He exploits Paul and George. 

George is just a pathetic little creature. He emulates Paul. He pervades his privacy to see what he's like. 

Paul is a wonderful guitarist and is so handsome that it is excruciating for George. The onset of this happening was when he was in his mid-teens. All the girls flocked to him.

 I have spent many years salvaging the information from the debris that used to be their miniature mansion.

Paul is, of course, the one wonder.

As you can see, my favorite Beatle is Paul McCartney. Who's your favorite Beatle???

BTW, all that about the Beatles is made up. except for the part that says Paul is a wonderful guitarist and is very handsome.

Marine Biology

Today Me and Judah did an experiment from the website fieldwork. we boiled 4 cups of ocean water*(it said to do a liter but there's .94 liter in 4 cups.) and we guessed how much salt there was going to be when all the water evaporated. I guessed 2 1/2 cups, Judah guessed 2 cups. there was 1/8th of a cup. Judah was closer. By 1/2 a cup. Here are some pictures I took.

This is the water boiling.

 

And here's a picture of the salt.

this is a picture of the fish tail judah found yesterday*

I'm sorry if you think this is gross.

this is a picture I took of my book The Seaside Naturalist and another book Atlantic Seashore. We accidently got the atlantic one instead of the pacific one.

Here is a picture of the 2 books I mentioned above.

And I pressed seaweed like it showed in the book. We made 3 microscope slides of seaweed and sketched some more plankton. Here is a picture of the slides we made.

We did all that today.

And then Me and Adalia had Japanese class. So, that was our day.

By Tilly

*we went to boulevard park yesterday and got seaweed,shells,rocks,and more!