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Welcome! It's spring! We love spring, because the flowers come up, and trees get their blossoms and leaves, and we can plant our garden. The weather has been hot and then cool, up and down, sometimes sunny and sometimes rainy. The rain greens up the grass and makes the flowers grow, so it's okay. When it's not raining, we go outside. When it is raining, we stay inside and do lots of fun things in school.
Brownies
I am a Brownie Girl Scout. We have fun at Brownies.
We do projects and we work on Brownie Try-It badges.
These are some of the things we did this spring.
Once we blew eggs, and this is how you do it. You get
a raw egg and you poke a hole in it with a needle. You
do it at both ends of the egg. Then you blow through
one end of the egg, and the yolk and stuff comes out
of the other end. Then we washed ours out and we made
Easter eggs by decorating them. That was so much fun!
Another thing we did was make friendship books and pins.
We wrote in our friendship books about our friends and
how much we care about them. We also made pins by getting
some safety pins and putting beads on them. We put
beads onto seven little pins, and then put all of
the little pins on a big pin. Then we gave them to
each other and pinned them onto our Brownie vests.
Last month, we went on the Gateway Clipper with Brownies.
Our families came too. We liked to see all the sights.
I saw a sunken boat, and we went under bridges. It was
fun because I went with all my friends. At our next
meeting, we will be going on a hike.
Brownies is fun!
By Dulcie The Senses
The five senses are seeing,
hearing, tasting, smelling, and touch. The sense organs
are the parts of the body that receive stimuli and send
messages to the brain. The eye sees, the ear hears, the
nose smells, the tongue tastes, and the skin feels.
By Dulcie
 I'm going to talk to you about the ear. The ear is cool. The anatomy of the human ear all starts when sound waves come into your ear and go into your ear canal. They vibrate the ear drum and the vibrations vibrate your hammer, anvil, and your stirrup bone. The vibrations change the fluids in the cochlea. In it there are hairs. The hairs pick up the messages and send them to the nerve path to the brain. And the semicircular canals help you keep your balance.
 Model, speech, and drawing prepared for the Spring Project Fair, by Dulcie Keni Can Read!
A couple of months ago, Keni
was playing with magnetic letters on the refrigerator,
and she spelled the word B-A-T, bat! She showed it to
Mom and me, and when Daddy came home she showed it to
him too. We were so proud of her, we had a party! Now,
she can read lots of words!
By Dulcie
Click here for a fun puzzle about spring that
you can print out and solve. After you print it, use the "Back" button on your browser
to return to this page.
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 Owls
We have owls living here -- it's so exciting! The owls
are in the woods behind our house, in a dead tree. They
have a nest in a hollow space in the top of the tree
trunk.
About two months ago, we heard an owl hooting in the
evening. At first we thought it was the bird clock in
the kitchen, but it wasn't 12:00!
A couple weeks ago we saw the owl flying to its tree.
There are two little owlets in the nest. They can't
fly yet, but we can see them up close when they are up
on the edge of the trunk.
They are great horned owls. We know they're great
horned owls because they have two little pointy feather
tufts on the top of their heads.
Last week, we found owl pellets at the bottom of the
tree where they live. Owl pellets are round little
balls filled with bones and fur from the animal that
the owl ate. They spit up the parts that they can't
digest.
We took the owl pellets apart, and we
learned what kind of animal they ate. They ate a
chipmunk! We saw short, brown fur and bones in the
owl pellets.
We think owls are cool! We've been reading about them.
This is a poem we read about owls, by Edward Lear:
Owly, Prowly, Howly, Owly, Browny fowly, Little owl!
Here's another one, by an
author unknown:
The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard. Why aren't we like that wise old bird? If you want to read more about owls, you can visit this page: The Owl Pages
By Dulcie  The Story of Jairus' Daughter
This little girl was sick, and Genesis called the doctor
and the doctor's medicine didn't help.
Then he went to find God, and then God said "Wait here,"
and he didn't want to wait. And then he said, "My
little girl's sick, come to my house! My daughter is
dying, she's very sick!"
And Jesus told him to wait here, and he didn't want
to wait. And a woman came running up and said "It's too
late, your daughter is dead! She died!"
And then God came, and then God picked up the little
girl's hand and said, "Wake up! Wake up!"
And the little girl did. And God is a miracle....
This is a narration of the
Bible story taken from Mark 5:22-43 and Luke 8:41-56,
by Kendra Spanish Lessons
We are learning Spanish! We
have learned lots of words for numbers, people,
clothes, and food, like el papa, la mama, el
gato, la camiseta, el pantalon, los zapatos, la leche,
el pan, and lots of others. Now I can
make some sentences, like "El perro es vestirse!" That
means "The dog is getting dressed!" I love that!
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