Lava Domes

We just learned about Pāhoehoe lava.

Let's learn about Lava domes!

Lava domes are kind of like big round bumps that show up in volcanoes, when lava is slowly erupting.

You can almost think of it like a big rock bubble that is ready to pop!

(from: wikipedia - lava dome)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Car Ignition

Albatross

The albatross is a bird with the largest wing span of any bird in the world, reaching up to 12 feet!
That's taller than any person!

They are sometimes called Gooney Birds.


(from: wikipedia - albatross)



Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Bald Eagle - nest & plumage

Lumbrical hand muscles

The lumbrical muscles in your hand are the muscles in between the metacarpal finger bones that are part of your hand.

They help you stick your fingers straight out.


(from: wikipedia - lumbricals of the hand)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Pectoral Girdle

Switzerland

We just learned about the country of Vatican City.

Switzerland is another country in Europe!


(from: wikipedia - switzerland)

For breakfast in Switzerland you might have a bowl of meusli,
a cereal invented there with oats grains nuts and fruits.

(from: wikipedia - swiss cuisine)

There is a big invention called the large hadron collider that scientists built
in Switzerland to maybe help us understand how the universe works!

(from: wikipedia - large hadron collider)

In the old days people in the Swiss mountains used to use a big long horn
called the alphorn to talk to each other across the mountains.

(from: wikipedia - alphorn)

The mountain range running through Switzerland is called the Alps,
and in the alps is a famous mountain called the Matterhorn.

(from: wikipedia - matterhorn)



Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Cardinal Directions

Jesus as a young boy

We just learned a little about what happened After Jesus' Birth

The bible doesn't tell us about how Jesus grew up as a baby or a little kid,
but it does tell us about one time when he was twelve years old.

Jesus whole family and many friends traveled from Nazareth to Jerusalem for a big festival.
After the festival was over, everyone went back home, but Jesus was not with them.
His parents thought maybe he was lost in their crowd of family and friends,
because there were so many people it would be easy to get mixed up.

But Jesus had stayed in Jerusalem and was staying in the temple (which was like a church)
talking to the teachers and asking them questions.

All of the teachers were amazed at how much Jesus knew and understood!
They did not know he was the son of God!

When Jesus' parents found him, they asked why he didn't come home with them,
and he told them he was in his father's house.

They didn't understand at the time, but he meant that since he was the son of God
and he was in God's house, that being in the temple was being in his father's house.

(from: wikipedia - finding jesus in the temple)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Fifth Commandment

Planetary nebula

A planetary nebula is a bunch of burning glowing gas that was shot out from a red giant star at one point.


(from: wikipedia - planetary nebula)



Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Earth's Seasons

Spanish - How are you?

In Spanish, if you want to say How are you?
you say ¿Cómo estás? - sounds like coh-moh-ess-tah-s /?/

(from: wikipedia - Association of Spanish Language Academies)

Do you remember how to say it in French?
Comment allez-vous?