Mississippi

We just learned about the state of Minnesota.

Mississippi is a state in the south of the US, with the Atlantic ocean to the south.

It's nicknames are The Magnolia State and The Hospitality State.
It's motto is Virtute et Armis which means By valor and arms.


(from: wikipedia - mississippi)

The flag of Mississippi has red white and blue stripes, and it has the confederate flag in the top left corner.
It's the only state in the US that has the confederate flag on it.


(from: wikipedia - flag of mississippi)

There are a bunch of islands off the coast of Mississippi and Florida, called the gulf islands because they are right on the gulf of Mexico. The biggest one by Mississippi is Horn Island.

(from: wikipedia - horn island (mississippi))

On one of the gulf islands called West Ship island, there is a military fort called fort Massachusetts, built in the 1800s to protect America from attacking ships.

(from: wikipedia - fort massachusetts (mississippi))


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Jesus Crucifixion - Here is your son

We just learned about Jesus saying to forgive people at his crucifixion.

When Jesus was on the cross, he looked down and saw his mother Mary, and also his disciple John.

He said to them Woman, here is your son and Here is your mother.

Even though Jesus was dying on the cross, he was thinking about who would take care of his mother when he was gone, so he told his disciple to take care of his mother when he was gone.


(from: wikipedia - sayings of jesus on the cross)


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No. 5, 1948 - Jackson Pollock

We just learned about the painting Little Dancer of Fourteen Years - by Edgar Degas.

Another famous work of art is No. 5, 1948 by American Painter Jackson Pollock.

This painting used something called drip painting which meant the painters canvas was on the ground and he used liquid paint to drip onto the canvas. Sometimes he would try and drip lines.

The painting is very different from some other styles because it's not a simple picture of people, it's kind of a bunch of wild and crazy lines and curves all over the place.
This is a style called abstract expressionism, and it mostly means that the painting shows a lot of energy and feeling but usually isn't just a picture of something.

(from: wikipedia - no. 5, 1948)


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German - The chair is small

We just learned that in German to say this house is big you say Das Haus ist groß.

Let's learn about more things we see every day.

To say The chair is small, we say Der Stuhl ist klein

We can break it up into four words:
The - Der - sounds like day-rr /?/
chair - Stuhl - sounds like shtool /?/
is - ist - Sounds like isst /?/
small - klein - Sounds like klah-een /?/


So all together Der Stuhl ist klein sounds like day-rr shtool isst klah-een.


(from: wikipedia - Goethe Institute)

Do you remember how to say it in Spanish?
La silla es pequeña

Do you remember how to say it in French?
La chaise est petit

Cloud Étages

Clouds are sometimes grouped by what is called their étage, which is really just a fancy word for how high or low a cloud is in the sky.

There are high-étage, middle-étage and low-étage.
The high étage is way up high in the sky, 10,000 to 25,000 feet up!
The low étage is 6,500 feet or below, and the middle étage is right in between.

So the clouds in the different étages are called different things, just based on how high they are in the sky.
Like the cirrocumulus clouds are high-étage, the altocumulus are middle-étage and the stratocumulus are low-étage.

(from: wikipedia - cloud)


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Shar Pei

We just learned about the Siberian Husky.

Another type of dog is the Shar Pei.
The Shar Pei has very loose skin all over it's body as a puppy. As it grows older, the skin stretches out a little, but it is still very loose especially on the their face.

These dogs were used as farming, hunting and fighting dogs, because if whatever animal they were fighting got a hold on their skin they could stretch their skin out to turn around and bite them back.

(from: wikipedia - shar pei)


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Palmar Arch

We know that the subclavian artery in the chest goes to the axillary artery in the armpit and then the brachial artery in the upper arm, then the ulnar and radial arteries in the forearm.

After that the radial and ulnar arteries go to the deep palmar arch and the superficial palmar arch which both bring blood to your hand.

(from: wikipedia - superficial palmar arch)


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