Sunday, December 7, 2014

Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King


We just learned about the Plans to kill Jesus

After Jesus told his apostles that he was the Messiah,
that he would be killed and then raised back to life three days later
and was transfigured on the mountaintop he went to Jerusalem.

Jesus told his apostles to go to the nearby village and they would find a donkey.
He told them to take the donkey and bring it back to Jesus.

The apostles went to the village and just like Jesus said they found a donkey tied up there waiting,
so they untied it and brought it to Jesus.

Jesus rode the donkey into Jerusalem, and when he got there a big crowd of people was cheering in the streets for him.
They took their coats off and put them on the ground for Jesus to sit on or walk on.
They cut branches down from the palm trees and placed them on the road for him.
They shouted out loud to him:
Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!

The people of Jerusalem saw Jesus as their king coming to save them.


(from: wikipedia - triumphal entry into jerusalem)

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Luncheon of the Boating Party - Renoir


We just learned about the painting The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali.

Another famous painting is called the Luncheon of the Boating Party, by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who is sometimes called just Renoir. (Sounds like uh-en-wah)
This painting shows a bunch of people having lunch on a boat.
When people are painted it is usually called figures.
When things like tables and food are painted it is called still life.
When backgrounds like mountains or sunsets are painted it is called landscape.
This painting combined all three.

Some of the people on the boat were Renoir's friends, and the woman on the bottom left playing with a dog is the woman that Renoir would marry later on.

The painting was made in the year 1881 and Renoir it is called an impressionist painting.
The impressionist painters did things like paint outside in the sunlight when a lot of people thought you should paint indoors.
They used lots of ways to try and show sunlight and brightness in their paintings, to try and make things look alive and happy.

Usually when someone wanted to make something stand out, they would use very sharp strong lines, kind of like the dark lines around the Mona Lisa, but for this painting they used bright colors in front of mixed colors. So the people in the white shirts really stand out in front of their background.

They also used different kinds of mixed colors and bright colors with small brush strokes to make it look like there was light shining off of people and things.
If you look at the white shirt the man is wearing, from far away you can see it as a white shirt, but up very close you can see almost a rainbow of colors like red, blue, pink, orange, yellow and white.


(from: wikipedia - luncheon of the boating party)


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Friday, December 5, 2014

German - Dog, Cat


To say dog in German, you say Hunt and it sounds like hoont /?/

To say cat in German, you say Katze and it sounds like cat-suh /?/

Goethe Institute
(from: wikipedia - Goethe Institute)

To say it in Spanish:
perro, gato
To say it in French:
chien, chat

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Cold Front


We've learned that water vapor can get lifted up into the air to become clouds by things called weather fronts.

One type of front is called a cold front.
It's when a whole bunch of cold air is moving along together in the wind in one direction.

When the cold front hits a bunch of warm air, it is heavier than the warm air.
So the warm air lifts high up into the air.
Almost like a shovel pushing along, the cold air stays low and the warm air goes high.

Remember that the warm air can be full of water vapor, and now that water vapor is high up in the sky where clouds start forming.

When the weather scientists want to show cold fronts on a map, they use blue triangles on a line, with the tip of the triangle pointing which way the cold front is moving.

(from: wikipedia - cold front)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Stratovolcano

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Spider Hearts & Blood


We just learned a little about Spider Lungs.

Spiders have hearts up along the back side of their lower body, on the part called their abdomen.

Spiders don't have normal blood like we do, they have something called hemolymph.
It's kind of like our blood, but it's a blue or grey color instead of red, and it has different kinds of nutrients in it.

Our heart pumps blood to all the parts of our body in tubes called veins and arteries.
Spiders have a heart and some smaller tubes for their hemolymph, but mostly they just help dump it out on all the inside parts of the spider's body.

(from: wikipedia - chelicerata)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Electric Eel

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Left Atrium


We've learned that our blood gets filled up with good oxygen in the capillaries by the lungs, and then goes through tubes called the pulmonary veins toward the heart.

The oxygen filled blood, sometimes called oxygenated blood, enters the heart at a place called the left atrium.

The heart is divided up into four parts, called chambers, and the atrium is one of those chambers.

(from: wikipedia - left atrium)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Tongue

Monday, December 1, 2014

Delaware


We just learned about the US state of Connecticut.

Delaware is a state on the northeast part of the US, right on the Atlantic ocean.
It is the second smallest state in the US.
It was named after one of the first people to come to America and help build the nation, Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr.

It's nicknames are: The First State; The Small Wonder; Blue Hen State; The Diamond State.


(from: wikipedia - delaware)

The flag of Delaware has a tan colored diamond on a blue background. These were the colors that the first US president George Washington wore when he fought in the war for America's freedom.

The flag shows the date of December 17, 1787 because Delaware was the first state in the USA to ratify the US Constitution. That means they were the first ones to agree to all the rules made for our country.

There is a shield in the middle that has wheat, corn and an ox for Delaware's farming.
A ship is shown because Delaware was famous for making ships, and it is right on the ocean.
There is a blue stripe for the Delaware river.
Two people are on the flag, one is a farmer and the other is a soldier.
The flag has the words Liberty and Independence.

(from: wikipedia - flag of delaware)

Delaware Bay is a large bay of water right next to Delaware that is a very important place for ships to come in from the ocean.
It is the second busiest place for ships, right after the Mississippi river.

(from: wikipedia - delaware bay)

The 47th Vice President of the US Joe Biden is from Delaware.


(from: wikipedia - joe biden)


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