Daily Girl #54: Check This Out

Bug Anatomy By Avery

This week at Adventure Club we learned all about bugs. We learned about the bug anatomy. What I think is cool is that some bugs have compound eyes. A compound eye has plenty of lenses instead of just one. So if a bug looked at a leaf it would see plenty of leaves. Also their thorax is their main body and so is the abdomen. Their abdomen is mainly their stomach. Their thorax is where almost all of the muscles are. Another thing that I thought was cool was that beetles and roaches have a wing case. People might think that they don't have wings, but they really do! A wing case holds back their wings. All bugs have wings, some have four and others have two. I didn't know that butterflies had four wings, I thought they just had two simple wings. But I do know that flies and bumblebees have only two wings. One interesting thing about wings is that they don't have muscles in them. All of the muscles that helps them fly and crawl are in their thorax. They have no muscles anywhere else. Also I think that how bugs eat is cool. Butterflies have a cool way of sucking up nectar. They have a straw like thing that helps them suck up the nectar. A house fly eats leftover food scraps. How they eat is they have a sponge like mouth. It picks up food and water with the end of it's mouth then it spits it back up and then swallows it again. Mosquitoes suck up blood with these skinny and sharp things on the end of their mouth. A damselfly eats mosquitoes by using it's jaws. A leafcutter ant cuts up leaves and then lets mold grow over the leaves. Then it eats the mold. I love learning about bugs!

Daily Girl #53: Check This Out

My Favorite Buddhist Story
By Avery

For school we have been learning about Buddhism. It is an Indian religion and the main figure is Buddha. We have been reading a lot about Buddha's life. My favorite story is called Angulimala The Robber. Here's the story: There was a robber named Angulimala that also wanted to kill people. He had to kill a certain amount of people and to count how many he has killed he puts their fingers on his necklace. One day he saw Buddha and wanted to kill him! So then he started running after Buddha. But no matter how fast he ran he couldn't catch Buddha, even though Buddha was walking. Angulimala said to Buddha " Stop moving, just stop!" Then Buddha said " I am not the one moving, you are." But Buddha's legs were moving. Then Buddha told him that if he has a calm mind, then he could do all sorts of things. But Angulimala has an angry mind. So then Angulimala calmed down and threw his sword into a ditch and then asked Buddha if he could teach him how to meditate. So then the story was over. This story teaches you that if you have a calm mind and meditate you can accomplish lots of things. I liked this story the most because it is very mysterious and exciting. I love learning about Buddhism.

Daily Girl #52- Check This Out

Check This Out: Sleepover Plans By Avery

Last week Lily Weaver, Marney, Kiki, and I all planed stuff for a big sleepover that we are going to have on the 20th! We are going to have it at Nana's house because that is where all the candy, coke, and Wii are. We are calling it a wakeover because we are not going to sleep at all! To keep us awake we are going to eat candy, drink coke, and play lots of games. Also it is going to be an all girls night. It is going to be an all girls night because Popo will be out of town on that day. The first thing that we are going to do when we are at Nana's house is we are going to play Hide And Go Seek. In the game we have to pair up and hide. So that means that Marney and Kiki will be a pair and Lily and I will be a pair. So Lily and I will count together and we will have to find Marney and Kiki. Later we are going to make our own pizzas for dinner. Make your own pizzas are the best pizzas ever because you can make it the way you want it. After we eat pizza we are going to cook all sorts of things. We are going to cook cake, little pastries, chocolate strawberries, jell-o, ice cream, and cookies. We really really want to make jello because then we can cut shapes out of them. We also wanted to do Nana's paraffin bath. A paraffin bath is where you dip your hands in wax and then let the wax dry. After the wax dries we have to peel off the wax and feel our smooth hands. We want to do the paraffin bath because it is awesome! When it gets dark we are going to go outside and play Hide And Go Seek with a flash light and Ghost In The Graveyard. We play ghost in the graveyard because it makes us want to tell scary stories. When we tell scary stories we are going to tell them outside in the dark because then it will make them even scarier. After a little while we are going to get our blow up beds out and start setting up for the stuff that we are going to play in the living room. We are going to move the furniture around and put on pajamas. We are all going to sleep on our own blowup beds. Nana is going to sleep in her bed. We will be playing Wii for the rest of the night. At 5:00 in the morning we are going to sleep for a few hours. When we wake up we are going to make some awesome pancakes that have some sugar and vanilla mixed in with them. It is going to be the best sleepover ever!