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)


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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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Plans to kill Jesus

We just learned about Jesus' Transfiguration.

After Jesus had done many miracles and taught people using parables, some of the people in those days didn't like what Jesus was doing.

Some of the leaders were upset because people were following Jesus instead of them.

So they started making plans to have Jesus killed, because they could not stop him from doing miracles and teaching people.

(from: wikipedia - pharisees)


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The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali

We just learned about the famous painting The Scream of Nature by Edvard Munch.

Another very famous painting is called The Persistence of Memory by the artist Salvador Dali.

His painting was very strange looking, almost like something weird out of a dream where things are melting.
This painting was using something called surrealism which kind of means taking things from our dreams or imagination and making real looking pictures out of them.

The painting has pocket watches that look like they are melting.
Some people think this painting says something about the way we think about time.
Is it really as simple as we think, where clocks just ticks on every second?
Or can we bend time, mush it around, speed it up or slow it down?
Salvador Dali said he thought of the idea to paint them that way by watching some cheese melt in the sun.


(from: wikipedia - the persistence of memory)


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German - Do you speak German?

To ask if someone speaks German, you say Sprechen Sie Deutsch?.

It sounds like sh-puh-ehk-en zee doh-ee-ch /?/

To say yes you would say jah which sounds like yah  /?/
or to say no you would say nein which sounds like nine  /?/



(from: wikipedia - Goethe Institute)

Do you remember how to say it in Spanish?
Hablas español?

Weather Fronts

We just learned about Deposition where water vapor turns right into a solid.

We've also learned that the water vapor that makes up clouds can come from evaporation or sublimation.
That all happens near the ground, but somehow that water vapor has to get way up in the sky to make a cloud.

There are a few different ways that water vapor gets lifted up to become a cloud, and one of them is using something called weather fronts.

A weather front is how the weather on our planet changes all the time.
Cold winds blow in during the winter, hot air moves in during the summer.

The way that these fronts move around with hot and cold temperatures, and different amounts of water vapor can cause different kinds of clouds, rain and storms.

If you look at weather maps, you can usually see colored shapes on the map that show what kind of temperature and pressure is in the air, and what kind of front is coming.


(from: wikipedia - weather front)

We'll learn more about each of these types of fronts next time.

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Spider Lungs

We just learned about the Spider Esophagus.

Spider lungs are located in the abdomen part of their body.

They don't have regular lungs like we do, they have something called book lungs.

The name comes from the way the lungs look on the inside.
There are stacks of air separated by body tissue.
The stacked up lines of body tissue kind of look like a book, which is why they are called book lungs.

Spiders don't breathe like we do, their book lungs are just sitting open and air flows into them.
They have a special liquid called hemolymph that helps soak up the oxygen into their bodies.

(from: wikipedia - book lung)


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