Solar eclipse

Remember orbit means that one thing spins around the outside of another thing.

We know the moon orbits around the earth, and is kind of close to the earth.
We also know the earth orbits around the sun.

What happens when the moon spins around the earth, and is right between the earth and the sun?
That's called a solar eclipse.

The moon gets right between the earth and the sun, and blocks out the sun!

(from: wikipedia - solar eclipse)

When the moon is in just the right position, it blocks out pretty much the whole sun, and the earth gets dark light night time, even though it's day time!

(from: wikipedia - solar eclipse)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Earth

Spanish - Black, white, brown, gray

We've learned red orange and yellow in Spanish is rojo naranja and amarillo, and green blue purple pink is verde azul morado and rosa.

Let's learn more colors!

Black - negro - sounds like nay-gdoh /?/
White - blanco - sounds like blah-n-coh /?/
Brown - marrón - sounds like mah-dd-oh-n /?/
Gray - gris - sounds like gd-ee-ss /?/


(from: wikipedia - Association of Spanish Language Academies)

Do you remember how to say it in French?
noir, blanc, brun, gris

Lava lake

We just learned about a Lava Fountain.

A lava lake is a large crater or hole filled with lava.

Sometimes lava lakes happen after an eruption that just fills up a crater,
and sometimes they happen because lava flows along the ground and fills up a hole.

(from: wikipedia - lava lake)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Atom

Impala

We just learned about the Gazelle.

Another type of antelope is the impala.

It is very good at jumping!
It can jump 9 feet in the air, taller than any person!
And it can jump more than 33 feet forward, about as long as two cars!

When a group of impalas gets scared by another animal that is attacking,
they will all start jumping around in the air to try and confuse their attacker.


(from: wikipedia - impala)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Shark teeth

Chewing muscles

We just learned about the Nose Muscles.

There's a fancy word for chewing, it's called masticating.

You have two main muscles you use for chewing.
One is your jaw muscle called the masseter muscle.


(from: wikipedia - masseter muscle)

The other is your temple muscle up on the side of your head, called the temporal muscle.


(from: wikipedia - temporal muscle)


If you bite down hard and feel your face and the side of your head, you can feel which muscles they are.

Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Tibia & Fibula

Uzbekistan

We just learned about the country of Malaysia.

Uzbekistan is a country in Asia West of China.

(from: wikipedia - uzbekistan)

For dinner in Uzbekistan, you might have plov, which is rice, meat carrots and onions.

(from: wikipedia - uzbekistan)

One of the fastest bicycle racers in the world is from Uzbekistan, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov.

(from: wikipedia - djamolidine abdoujaparov)

Aral sea in Uzbekistan was once the fourth largest sea in the world.
Some people who needed drinking water took it from rivers that came out of that sea, and it drained it almost empty.

(from: wikipedia - aral sea)

The city of Bukhara has many wonderful buildings.

(from: wikipedia - bukhara)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Lattitude & Longitude

Jesus' Miracles - Healing Women

We've learned about Jesus' Miracles healing lepers, healing the blind, and healing the paralyzed.

Jesus healed other people as well, like three women that he healed.

One was sick and just had to touch his cloak to be healed.
One was the mother of the Apostle Simon Peter,
and another was a woman who had been crippled for eighteen years.


(from: wikipedia - healing the mother of peter's wife)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Apostle's Creed - Part 9