Kute Kiddo Jokes

Q: Why did the leaf go to the Doctor?

A: It was feeling green!


Q: Why did the Pilgrim's pants always fall down?

A: Because he wore his belt buckle on his hat!


Q: Why was the cookie crying?

A: Because its mother had been a wafer so long?

Weblink Wednesday: Yummy Lesson!

There's nothing better then eating Asphalt! Yummy!!!

You mix the Aggregate with the Binder and Bitumen then add the Catalyst

What do you get?

A tasty lesson in Civil Engineering!

Check out this delicious lesson in road construction.

It's so fun that even the girls will want to pull out thier Drum Mixer

and calculate the tastest Ratio for the best Mixture to Engineer

the most awesome Pavement!

Go to: http://www.freewebs.com/chocolateasphalt/index.htm

for an incredibly edibly tasty Civil Engineering lesson!


Chocolate Asphalt!

Weblink Wednesday is hosted by Valerie @ socalval !

Welcome Friends!

Welcome Friends!

Many people will walk in and out of your life. But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.



Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.



He, who loses money, loses much; He, who loses a friend, loses much more; He, who loses faith, loses all.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.



Friends, you and me .... You brought another friend ... And then there were 3 ... We started our group .... Our circle of friends .... There is no beginning or end .



Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift.

Four All Who Reed and Right

By Unknown Author:

FOUR ALL WHO REED AND RIGHT

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.

19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20) I had to subject the subject to a series of ! tests. < /SPAN>

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example ... If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England.

We take English for granted.

But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?


Sometimes, I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop?

Turning Ten!

My son will be turning ten in four and a half weeks so I've begun preparing for this once in a life time event.  Turning ten is BIG!  From here on out, his age will be marked by two numbers until he reaches 100!  So for this big event, I asked him how he would like to celebrate and he surprised me by saying he only wants to invite his best friend and his two cousins making just a total of four boys.  He is planning out lots of four player games and boy type activities like water bombs.  He also requested we do up the house and pull out the fog machines which means moving the birds out as I don't think the fog is too good for them. 

There is a Meteor Shower during the early hours of his birthday so he has requested a sleep over.  Hmmm.....OK.... ~~~ wondering which one will actually be awake at those early morning hours ~~~ ( http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors/ )

So in preparation of just what exactly this young man would like for presents,  I handed him a Museum Tour Annual Catalog.  ( www.museumtour.com )  It's full of interesting things so it's a great way to tune into where his interests are going.  (It also helps start my Christmas shopping list, lol.)  Needless to say, he won't be getting EVERYTHING he's interested in, at least not for his birthday, but many of the items I can count towards 'homeschooling supplies' so eventually he should be able to have his favorites.  Just for fun I'll post a few of his favorite choices:

The two most wanted (and do able) :

Strato Chess

 

RoboReptile

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In the Educational Department:

Egyptians Board Game

VEXPlorer Tournament-Worth Robotics

(Lol....)

Hydrodynamic Deluxe Set

 

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And for my favorite because he asked for this one so he could design a house for me!  How sweet!  (We really need to build a bigger house.) And then he added that it would also be great for his Army men, lol.  Boys and thier toys...

Young Architects Building Set

Age Related Blindness

I thought I was going BLIND!!  Recently, I've been needing to have a child with me while I grocery shop as I couldn't read the small print on the labels.  I could no longer read Yu-gi-oh cards!  I tried getting more sleep.  I tried cutting down my computer time.  Nothing worked so I finally went to the Opthamologist and found I'm suffering from middle age!!!  Yikes!!!  He reassured me, I'm not going blind.  He also reassured me that I would need my new glasses even more by the end of the year!

I had to wait two weeks they said for my new glasses to be made.  So I went to GA without them, still feeling blind.  Things can get confusing when you can't see them right and here's one of the things that caused me a momentary ~gasp~  

Okay, so now you are wondering just what caused me momentary distress...  See the three orange somethings?  One day when we came up the hill to this store, these three little objects looked (to me in my blindness) like three sixes!  I freaked out wondering how a business could get away with putting THAT on the front of their store and how had I MISSED THAT all the other times we had shopped there?!

Needless to say, my spouse drove us closer and let me see that it wasn't what I first thought, whew!  I now have my new glasses but I'm not supposed to wear them for driving so they wouldn't have helped much anyway, lol.   While I was out picking up these new best friends (Mother's little helper?), I decided to pick up this incredible book for my son.   

Happy reading! 

Abbott and Costello math problem

Black Rock Mountain, Ga

Let's go for a hike!

Hi ho, hi ho, it's up the trail we go...

So high we've climbed!

What a cute neighbor's house!

What an inspiring view they have!

Princess Caylee resting on a wilderness throne!

King Ktas finding the path steep.

Ktas is determined to conquer this mountain.

And conquer it he does!

This is one of the trails on Black Rock Mountain, Georgia's highest state park.

King Ktas, Mystic Missy, and Princess Caylee have conquered the mountain!!

Goats on the Roof

Tiger Mountain, Georgia

Book Quiz!!!

You're The Guns of August!

by Barbara Tuchman

Though you're interested in war, what you really want to know is what
causes war. You're out to expose imperialism, militarism, and nationalism for what they
really are. Nevertheless, you're always living in the past and have a hard time dealing
with what's going on today. You're also far more focused on Europe than anywhere else in
the world. A fitting motto for you might be "Guns do kill, but so can
diplomats."


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

OKay.... Since a few of these questions were a toss up, I took it again...I got differant questions! Here's my second book that also fits...

You're The Poisonwood Bible!

by Barbara Kingsolver

Deeply rooted in a religious background, you have since become both
isolated and schizophrenic. You were naively sure that your actions would help people,
but of course they were resistant to your message and ultimately disaster ensued. Since
you can see so many sides of the same issue, you are both wise beyond your years and
tied to worthless perspectives. If you were a type of waffle, it would be
Belgian.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

September 12, 2007

WOW! Can you believe we're already this far through the month of September? Did somebody speed up the calendar? I feel so like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland...

Well for those that have missed me, I'm back! Hang in there and I'll get back to visiting everyone soon. We returned from Georgia with a 27' UHaul filled with 104 18 gallon rubbermade containers and lots of furniture. Oh, did I forget to mention what we were doing in Georgia? A year and a half ago, my MIL had a stroke at the age of 83. Since then she has been living with us. We've spent all our vacation time since then going up to her home in the Georgia mountains to prepare her house for something. I think it's been decided to rent it at this point (idk). Anyway, this last trip saw the place returned to an actual home. We're hoping one last trip to steam clean the carpets and wash the windows will be all that's needed to have it ready for company. We may need to do a new porch, hmm.

Yep!

You Belong in Spring

Optimistic, lively, and almost always happy with the world... You can truly appreciate the blooming nature of spring. Whether you're planting flowers or dyeing Easter eggs, spring is definitely your season!

What Season Are You?

Entomology (+ Links)

http://insected.arizona.edu/ladyinfo.htm

http://www.bijlmakers.com/entomology/begin.htm

http://homeschool-curricula.suite101.com/article.cfm/insects_lesson_plan

http://iitc.tamu.edu/lesson_plans.html

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/resourc/resourc.htm

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/directory/91

http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2007FOR0034-000300.htm

http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/facts.htm

http://www.sequoiahistory.org/beetlerock/History.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/labnotes/read/ecology/dung_beetle_2/default.htm

http://butterflywebsite.com/Resource/MakeList.cfm?List=EDU&Ordering=N

Biology & Conservation

Melissa's assignment said for her to plant a tree:

Melissa planted a Ficus which can be groomed into a form of bonsai

Now imagine this 60' tall. That's what the Ficus Trees in Florida parks look like. I'll try to get to a friend's house to get some pictures of thier tree which was bonsai'd as it grew. They have braids and ladders weaved into the walking root system.

(Not my friend's tree!)

Here's another picture I found of a full grow ficus tree.

The second Tree Melissa planted was a Red Banana Tree.

YUM!!!!

OK!

I just showed Melissa the post I made in her honor which she was enjoying till it scrolled into the last post on WORMS!!!

She went ballistic on how GROSS that was so I will intervene and add a few lines on Biomes:

What is a Biome?

Large geographical areas that have vegetation and animals that have become especially adapted to a certain climate are called biomes. Climate is the combination of expected temperature, sunlight, wind, and precipitation over an extended length of time. This is why you don't see polar bears in a desert; they just can't handle the climate.

As we continue our hike, we'll pass through a few different biomes. Pay close attention and you will see how the plants and animals have adapted to that particular area. An adaptation is any special characteristic or feature that makes the animal or plant especially suited for the climate and geological features of the biome in which they live.

Let's continue to look at some interesting biomes around the world. Click on the BioVenture tab to continue the Extreme Eco Challenge.

So far on this adventure you have seen that there are several different biomes. Biomes do not have definite boundaries. So you can't actually put one foot in the desert and one in a forest at the same time. Because of this, there are many biome types out there. However we can't hike forever, so we'll just take a look at the 7 most common biomes, pictured below:

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Hmmmm...You can carry almost everything in a backpack. Best invention since sliced bread if you ask me.

Lucky you, I just happento have my Travel log with me. It has lots of information about all the other Biomes I have traveled to.

Each one of the above biomes has a unique climate and wildlife that lives there. The plants and animals and even the microscopic organisms have adapted in order to successfully live in their biome.

Let's look at some of the characteristics of these biomes. Get out your Travel Log and take notes! We've started a notes page for you:

Open this file and use it to record your findings (be prepared to use your notes to complete the assessment for this activity). We started the following Notes Page for you.

Biome Notes

As you read about each of the biomes you will need to record:

• a general description of the biome and if there is a general area where the biome is located.


• a general description of the overall climate.


• the average temperature (include a range of temperatures if appropriate) and annual rainfall amounts.


• the names and pictures of at least two plants and two animals that are characteristic of that biome.


• for each animal or plant you choose you need to describe the adaptations that make them suited to the biome in which they live.

(Above Biome information taken from FL Virtual Biology 10th grade)

Hope you've enjoyed.

PLEASE LEAVE A NOTE AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THOUGHT?!?!?

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/

http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/biomes/aquatic.html