Jesus Tomb - Angels

When Mary and Mary found Jesus' empty tomb there were men there in bright white clothing like snow or lightning.

These angels told them that Jesus was not there and that he had risen to heaven as he said he would.


(from: wikipedia - matthew 28:2)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Jesus' Sermon on the Mount

Bethlehem Mural - Banksy

We just learned about the work of art A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet.

Another famous work of art is the wall mural in Bethlehem painted by artist Banksy in 2005.

Some artists use their skills to send a message about things they want to say to the world.
The artist Banksy has gone out to public places and painted things on walls of buildings or by streets so that people can see paintings that may change the way they think about the world.

In the Banksy mural in Bethlehem there are some children by a crack in the wall with a sunny beach on the other side.

Many of the paintings that Banksy makes are on buildings where it is against the law to spray paint things.
Spray painting pictures on someone else's property is called graffiti.
Since Graffiti is illegal, Banksy has to work in secret to keep from getting arreested.

At this time no one even knows who Banksy really is.
People don't even know if Banksy is a man or a woman, or if Banksy is even a bunch of people working together!
Whoever it is, they are very famous and they are using their art to send messages about how they feel about the world.

(from: wikipedia - banksy)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Waning Crescent

German - Her hands are soft

We just learned in German our table is short is Unser Tisch ist kurz.

To say her hands are soft you would say Ihre Hände sind weich.
We can break it up into four words:
Her - Ihre - sounds like ee-uh /?/
hands - Hände - sounds like han-duh /?/
are - sind - Sounds like zint /?/
soft - weich - Sounds like vah-ee-hhk /?/


So all together Ihre Hände sind weich sounds like Ee-uh han-duh zint vah-ee-hhk.


(from: wikipedia - Goethe Institute)

Do you remember how to say it in Spanish?
Sus manos estan suaves

Do you remember how to say it in French?
Ses mains sont douces.

Hail

We just learned that rain happens when enough water vapor collects in a cloud and it falls to the ground as water.

If there is a thunderstorm cloud and the air in the sky is cold enough, this can cause hail.

The water in the clouds freezes and turns to very small bits of ice.
In a cumulonimbus cloud with a lot of strong wind blowing up, the small bits of ice will keep getting blown back up into the sky and then falling down, getting more and more ice on them until they are too big and heavy to get blown back up and they fall down to the ground.

Hail can be as small as tiny pebble or larger than a golf ball!


(from: wikipedia - hail)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Minerals

Basenji

We just learned about the type of dog called Chow Chow.

Another type of dog is called the Basenji.
Basenji's are from Africa, and they are a very old type of dog going all the way back to the ancient pharoahs. There are paintings of these dogs sitting at the feet of pharoahs from over a thousand years ago.

The basenji's bark is different, and sounds more like a yodel or is sometimes called a barroo.

(from: wikipedia - basenji)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Dolphin

Femoral Artery

After the oxygenated blood comes through the abdominal aorta it splits into 10 smaller arteries.

One of those is called the iliac artery which then continues to the femoral artery.
This is a big artery that runs right down the inside of your thigh.


(from: wikipedia - femoral artery)

Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Pharynx

Nevada

We just learned about the US state of Nebraska.

Nevada is a state on the west side of the US, right next to California.
It's state nicknames are Silver State because of the silver discovered there, Sagebrush State because of the sage brush that grows there, and the Battle Born State because it became a state during the civil war.
It's state motto is All for Our Country
The state name comes from the Spanish word for snow covered, because of the snow on the mountains in the winter.

(from: wikipedia - nevada)

The Nevada flag has a blue background with a silver star, a yellow scroll with the words Battle Born, and some green sage brush plants. These are for the three state nicknames.

(from: wikipedia - flag of nevada)

The seal of Nevada has a silver miner, a quartz mill, a train, telegraph poles, a sheaf of wheat, a sickle, a plow, the sin rising over snowy mountains, the state motto "All for Our Country" and 36 stars because it was the 36th state added to the US.

(from: wikipedia - seal of nevada)

In the 1950s there was a place in Nevada called the Nevada Test Site where people would test nuclear bombs out in the desert.

(from: wikipedia - nevada test site)

In the 1920s there was a large dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona called the Hoover Dam.
It gets power from the water called hydroelectric power and gives the electricity to the cities.

(from: wikipedia - hoover dam)

In the city of Las Vegas, there are many casinos where people can go gambling. Many of the casinos are very fancy like pirate ships, huge fountains, pyramids or even made to look like the cities of New York, Paris or Venice.

One of the streets called Fremont Street has a giant TV screen above it for four city blocks.

(from: wikipedia - fremont street)

There is a colorful water spouting geyser in Nevada called the Fly Geyser

(from: wikipedia - fly geyser)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Egypt