Irises - Van Gogh

We just learned about Van Gogh's painting of Trees and Undergrowth.

Another of Van Gogh's paintings is of Irises.

He painted this when he was at the Saint-Paul Asylum, where he made lots of paintings of flowers.

Van Gogh liked to paint a lot and he thought it helped make him feel better.

He called it "the lightning conductor for my illness"


(from: wikipedia - irises (painting))


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Arabic - Six, seven, eight, nine, ten

We learned in Arabic that 1-5 is واحد (wahid), اثنين (aithnayn), ثلاثة (thalatha), أربعة ('arbaea), خمسة (khamsa), .

Now let's count up to ten!

6 ستة (sita) - 文A

7 سبعة (sabea) - 文A

8 ثمانية (thamania) - 文A

9 تسع (tise) - 文A

10 عشرة (eashra) - 文A



(from: wikipedia - lebanese academy of sciences)

Do you remember how to say it in other languages?

Hindi: छह (chhah), सात (saat), आठ (aath), नौ (nau), दस (das)

Swahili: sita, saba, nane, tisa, kumi

Russian: шесть (shest'), семь (sem'), восемь (vosem'), девять (devyat'), десять (desyat')

Norwegian: seks, syv, åtte, ni, ti

Greek: έξι, εφτά, οχτώ, εννέα, δέκα

ASL: Six, seven, eight, nine, ten

Italian: sei, setto, otto, nove, dieci

German: seis, sieben, acht, neun, zehn

Spanish: seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez

French: six, sept, huit, neuf, dix

India Flag

We just learned about the Hotel Flag.

Another of the maritime flags is the India Flag, used for the l.

It is a flag that is yellow with a black circle in the middle. It also means I am altering my course to port.


(from: wikipedia - international maritime signal flags)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Touchpad

Nepanthia Belcheri

We just learned about the Red Knobbed Sea Star.

Another kind of starfish is the Nepanthia Belcheri.

This type of starfish lives near Australia, and grows to be a few inches wide.
One very interesting thing about this starfish is that it can split itself in half and turn itself into two starfishes.


(from: wikipedia - nepanthia belcheri)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Philippine Tarsier

Alpha Waves

We just learned about Narcolepsy.

Another part of sleep science is Alpha Wave.

These are waves that come out of the brain while you are sleeping, and can be measured with science tools called an EEG.

(from: wikipedia - alpha wave)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Oval Window

Istanbul Turkey

We just learned about the city of Shenzhen China.


Let's learn a little about the city of Istanbul, Turkey!

This city is in Turkey.
It is about 2,500 square kilometers, and about 15 million people live there.
The people in this city mostly speak Turkish.


(from: wikipedia - istanbul)

In Istanbul there is a sports club calls Beşiktaş J.K, that owns a bunch of different sports teams like soccer, basketball, and volleyball.

(from: wikipedia - beşiktaş j.k.)

To eat in this city you might have Dolma which is a vegetable leaf filled up with rice, meat or fruit.

(from: wikipedia - dolma)

Visiting this city you might go see dalia beach in the town of Kilyos.

(from: wikipedia - kilyos)

Under the ground in Istanbul are some cisterns that are big open areas for storing water.
The basilica cistern is over 100,000 square feet and can old over 2 million cubic feet of water.


(from: wikipedia - basilica cistern)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Dominican Republic

Jacob and Rachel

We just learned about the Jacob and Leah.

Another part of the Bible is about Jacob and Rachel.

In the old days of the Bible, a lot of times men would have more than one wife.
After Jacob married Leah, seven years later he married Leah's sister Rachel, in Genesis chapter 29.


(from: wikipedia - rachel)


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