Glow, Glow, Glow!

Today I was reading a book. It told me that in 2004, scientists found a glow-in-the-dark giant squid in the Pacific Ocean near Japan. They figured out that the squid uses its bright lights to dazzle and catch its prey. It makes me think of my glow-in-the-dark ghost pez!

Whale Vomit

I know this is gonna sound crazy, but whale vomit is used to make perfume. But not all perfume, just some. It starts off stinky, but after 10 years it smells heavenly.

Are you wearing whale puke today?

Fraction Frenzy

Today I was reading one of my mom's cookbooks. And I asked her what one of the signs was. It looked like a number and a slash and a number. She explained with a pizza.

She said if we we make it into two pieces, and we take one half, it makes a fraction that shows 1/2. The bottom number is the total number of pieces. The top number is how many you take away. So if we make 8 pieces of a pie, and take away 2, the fraction would be 2/8. And this does not work if the pieces are not all the same size.

Now I'm gonna go play fractions.

**Conner's mom sneaking on here now...here's the fractions he wrote and drew while he was reading the cookbook some more and "playing fractions." :)

crocodiles

Crocodiles dont chew they eat rocks so the prey gets smashed up in there stumack. They use there teeth to grab there prey. I learned this one day when I was watching Diego.

Blogging Break

Hello, Conner's mom here again...

Conner informed me last week that he is tired of learning new things, and he's really tired of writing about them. He says he won't be blogging again for at least a year.

We're sorry to disppoint the readership, but thought you should know... :)

Exo-Explosion!!!

I learned that exoskeletons are kinda like shells on turtles and tortoises. A bunch of bugs have exoskeletons, even dragonflies! They have exoskeletons because, if they're strong enough, they can protect them from explosions!

If someone is inside a robot, they are inside an exoskeleton, which protects them. Suits of armor on knights and soldiers and all sorts of army people have exoskeletons on.

Purple-Eyed Peas, Purple-Eyed Peas, P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Purple-Eyed Peas!

I just got back from Yogi and BooBoo's. I helped them in the garden a lot.

I picked purple peas. I called them "purple-eye peas." You know, because they weren't black, you know, "black-eyed peas?" I learned that when they get ripe, they turn purple. When they're not ripe, they're green.

I got to shell them, and it's really cool. You stick the shell through and they go right through and purple-eyed peas shoot right out. Here's me and Micah shelling peas last summer: