Book

Today I finished a book called, A Friendship For Today.  It's about this black girl who in sixth grade is in a class with all white people.  Her friend caught polio and is in the hospital.  She makes a friend which is a girl she used to hate because that girl made fun of her.  Her name is Grace and they become really good friends but then Grace moves to Arkansas.  Finally after school is out her friend who got polio (JJ) is back and their together again.

Earth

Today I learned that there four parts of the earth.  The inside of earth.  So it's the crust which is only  19 miles deep.  The the mantle which takes up most of the space the the outer core then the inner core.

Rocks and Minerals

There are three types or sorts of rocks.  The metamorphic, the igneous, and the sedimentary.  You can tell different minerals by, the hardness, the color, how it breaks, the shape and the size of the minerals.  Awesome right!

Angel

Yesterday I got a new parakeet! I called her Angel.  She is all white except for so blue patches here and there.  She is soooooo pretty!  She is liking me more than she used to but she doesn't trust me completely yet.  She wants another bird (probably a male) to keep her company while I'm gone at school and such.  Here is a picture of her,

South West states

Today I learned all of the Southwest states! They consist of, Texas, Arizona,  New Mexico and Oklahoma.  I learned there capitols and abbreviations etc. Even though the Southwest only has four states Texas could count as two or three more.

Chemicals in drugs....

Today some High Schoolers came and taught us about drugs and smoking.  Did you know that there are four-thousand chemicals in one cigaret?  

The Farmington High School Band

Today we went on a field trip to the Farmington High School band.  It was so cool!!!!!!!!!  There were so many instruments.  I'll name them, There was the tuba, saxophone, trombone, drums, gongs, flutes, oboes, more drums, piano, xylophone, wind chimes, and some more that I forgot.  My two favorites were the drums and the trombone!  The trombone played a part in the Star Wars theme song.  There were other instruments that played different parts of the Star Wars theme song.

Japanese Clapping Game

In my music class today we played this game called, the Japanese Clapping Game.  It's kind of like how we do the clapping thing with, "this old man" but not exactly.  So one person is like an crocodile with your hand clapping but up and down, not side to side.  The other person claps his/her hands above the persons clapping hands and then below.  And while clapping like that he/her sings, "Omo  cheo suki macho."  Twice.  The after that without stopping pats his hand and then the crocodile's hands back and fourth.  And he/her sings,  "Peten co Peten co, peten peten peten co."  Then the fun part begins.  You slide your hand across your other hand and go through the crocodiles hands (without getting touched) while singing, " shook ono te' shook ono te', shook ono te' cono te' cono te'."  Then without stopping you clap side to side below the crocodiles hands, in between and above the crocodiles hand while singing, "Bom bom bom bom bom, bom bom bomb bom bom, bom bom bom bom bom bom bom.  From low to high then high to low then low low medium high high.  

Frogmouth

Today I learned there is a type of bird that is called a frogmouth!  And it's an easy answer to why it's called a frogmouth.  Well it's beak is really fat and short and it looks like a frog mouth.  Here are some

 pictures,

mug shot

 two love birds

runt of the litter