Spanish - Counting to eighty nine

We just learned how to count to 79 in Spanish, let's keep going!

80 ochenta - sounds like oh-chen-tah /?/
81 ochenta y uno - sounds like oh-chen-tah ee oo-n-oh /?/
82 ochenta y dos - sounds like oh-chen-tah ee doh-ss /?/
83 ochenta y tres - sounds like oh-chen-tah ee t-day-ss /?/
84 ochenta y cuatro - sounds like oh-chen-tah ee koo-ah-t-doh /?/
85 ochenta y cinco - sounds like oh-chen-tah ee see-n-koh /?/
86 ochenta y seis - sounds like oh-chen-tah ee say-ss /?/
87 ochenta y siete - sounds like oh-chen-tah ee see-ay-tay /?/
88 ochenta y ocho - sounds like oh-chen-tah ee oh-choh /?/
89 ochenta y nueve - sounds like oh-chen-tah ee noo-ay-vay /?/


(from: wikipedia - Association of Spanish Language Academies)

Do you remember how to say it in French?
French - quatre-vingts, quatre-vingts-un, quatre vingt deux, quatre vingt trois, quatre vingt quatre, quatre vingt cinq, quatre vingt six, quatre vingt sept, quatre vingt huit, quatre vingt neuf

Titanium

We just learned about the element of Sulfur

Another chemical element is Titanium, called "Ti" for short on the Periodic Table.

Titanium is a very hard metal, that is not very heavy.
Because of this it is very good for use in things like spaceships that need to be very light.

It is not magnetic, and does not carry heat or electricity very well.

(from: wikipedia - titanium)

The scientist who discovered titanium named it after the old Greek stories of Titans who were giants with great strength.

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Colossal Squid

We just learned about the fish called a Blue Tang

Another interesting animal is the Colossal Squid

It is the largest invertibrate ever discovered in the world.

An invertibrate is an animal without a skeleton, like an Octopus or squid.


It was discovered in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
The colossal squid was around 40 feet long, that's about 7 times taller than a normal person, and as tall as a four story house!

We don't know much about the colossal squid, because we've only ever seen a few in real life!

(from: wikipedia - colossal squid)


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Ascending Colon

We've learned how after food leaves your small intestine, it goes to your cecum.

After the food leaves your cecum, it continues in a tube that goes up on the right side of your body called the ascending colon.

The job of the ascending colon is to get water and salt from the food as it goes through the last part of your digestive system.

(from: wikipedia - ascending colon)

The word ascending means going up.

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Chad

We just learned about the country of Senegal.

Chad is one of the larger countries in Africa, it is in the middle of the Northern part of the continent.

(from: wikipedia - chad)

The flag of Chad is three stripes, blue yellow and red.
The blue is for the sky, hope and water.
The yellow is for the sun and the desert.
The red is for the progress, unit and sacrifice.

(from: wikipedia - flag of chad)

To eat in Chad you might have smoked cooked alestes, which is a type of fish.

(from: wikipedia - alestes)

Clean water is not easy to get in Chad, so many people have to walk miles to get buckets of water to bring back to their town.

(from: wikipedia - chad)

The balafon is a type of musical instrument in Chad. It is a kind of wooden xylophone.

(from: wikipedia - balafon)


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Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

We just learned about Jesus' teaching stories called the Parable of the Sower, the Parable of the Weeds the Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl and the Parable of the Wandering Sheep.

Another Parable Jesus told is called the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant.

He told his followers about a king who had servants who owed him money, and he wanted them all to pay back the money they owed.

One man owed him ten thousand bags of gold!
The king ordered that this man and his wife and children would be sold to be slaves because they owed so much.

The servant begged the king to please just give him time and he would pay back all the gold he owed.
The king felt sorry for the servant, so he told him that he didn't have to pay back any of the ten thousand bags of gold!

After the servant left the king, he found one of his own servants who owed him only a hundred silver coins, which is worth a lot less than ten thousand bags of gold.
He grabbed his own servant, choked him and yelled at him to pay back the money he owed.
The other servant begged to give him time and he would pay it all back.
But the first servant said no and had his own servant thrown in jail!

The king found out what the first servant did, and was very mad at him.
The king had let the first servant go and said he didn't have to pay back the ten thousand bags of gold,
but the first servant threw the second servant in jail for only one hundred silver coins.
So he had the first servant thrown into jail because he did not treat his other servant the same way he was treated.

Jesus told this story because he wanted us to understand that we need to forgive other people when they do something wrong,
just like he forgives us when we do something wrong.

One of Jesus' followers asked him if he should forgive someone who did something wrong to them seven times.
Jesus said not just seven times but seventy-seven times!

He didn't mean count up to seventy-seven and then that's it, he was trying to say that you should always forgive other people because God always forgives you.


(from: wikipedia - parable of the unforgiving servant)


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Jupiter - Pioneer, Voyager, Ulysses, Cassini-Huygens, New Horizons

We've learned about space exploration of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

Next up is Jupiter!

We launched many spacecrafts to go fly by Jupiter and take close pictures.
Pioneer 10 in 1972, Pioneer 11 in 1973.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were both launched in 1977.
Ulysses was launched in 1990.
Cassini-Huygens was launced in 1997.
New Horizons was launched in 1006.

All of the spacecraft took about 2 years to get to Jupiter, and most of them continued flying on to look at other planets.


(from: wikipedia - voyager 1)


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