How nice.
I just took Lexxi and Isaac to school so Isaac could haul this guy to class with him.
This was for his animal report on the octopus, and it always works out nice when you happen to have a giant stuffed octopus to use for the presentation. I helped him with his research and facts chain, and Isaac made fish to stick on the arms (since octopuses eat fish), and I'll include what's written on the chain facts, for your learning benefit. :)
Here, educate yourself :
1. Octopuses are very smart. They can open containers that have twist-on lids, and they often escape from their aquariums because they are intelligent enough to figure out how. They are even known to climb aboard fishing boats and open the crab holds to eat the crabs.
2. Octopuses live in coral reefs and sea beds in the ocean. (They like to climb inside things which is why fisherman can catch them by putting clay pots on the ocean floor.)
3. Octopuses do not hibernate or migrate, because they live deep enough in the ocean that the temperature above does not affect them.
4. Octopuses can detach their own arm and leave it behind (still moving) to distract a predator.
5. Many octopuses can change their color and skin texture to camouflage themselves.
6. The largest recorded octopus weighed 600 lb, and had an arm span of 30 feet. (But most are much smaller than this.)
7. They do not have skeletons.
8. Both male and female octopuses die soon after making babies.
Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day. We made a rainbow cake. The boys loved helping stir in the food coloring.
With it we fit in the Irish tradition (done usually on Halloween) of putting small tokens, cleaned and wrapped in foil, into different spots in the cake. Each represent a fortune for the one who gets it. The Irish usually do things like a ring (meaning the person would get married), a piece of cloth (meaning the person would be poor that year), a coin (meaning riches), etc. But I wanted all of ours to be positive and relative to our lives, so we did the following :
coin : a year full of wealth (Braden got this one, haha)
clear marble : your future is clear, to be filled with what you choose. (Lexxi)
heart : lucky in love (Briah got this one.... oh dear. )
tiny dice : just plain good luck (Deacon)
key : you hold the key to your future, to unlock what you will. (Levi)
magic wand : something you wish for will come true. (Isaac)
cup : your cup of life will be full. (Me... wow, it's true already!)
happy sign : you'll be blessed with much happiness in the coming year. (Isaac got this one too)
Isaac thoroughly enjoyed making a "leprechaun trap" at school, I wish I had a picture, it was cute. A little styrofoam cup with a tiny door cut out of it that said welcome, and it had holes in the top for air. Unfortunately, he didn't catch the leprechaun, but the leprechaun dropped its loot inside in its hurry to escape, so he got that big shamrock sticker he's wearing, and 2 chocolates out of it all.
I get to hear the lovely sound of my daughter's voice ringing through the house. She is auditioning tonight for a part in the play Tom Sawyer for CYT. So all week we've been graced with her sweet voice singing "I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive...... Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet and willingly I belieeeve....."
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