Abe finished a big social studies project this week. His teacher divided the class into groups and each group created their own country. Abe's group's country was an island named Feng Fu.
Helen's teacher divided her class into groups to dissect salmon. She invited Becky to lead one of the groups. We had a dull knife, 2 pairs of scissors and tweezers to work with. The whole event was fairly disgusting and extremely educational at the same time. Or maybe it was extremely disgusting and fairly educational.
We could tell our salmon was a female from its egg sacs. The egg sacs were the first thing we saw when we cut the fish open. Each female carries about 2500 eggs. On average only 2 eggs grow to adults and survive to spawn. The rest are eaten somewhere along the way as they grow from eggs to fry to smolt to fish. Or they get dissected by 4th grade classes before they can spawn.
Our all girl group was full of shrieks and squeals, but every girl took a turn to dissect. Becky was the only one squeamish enough to want gloves. Helen is holding an eyeball in this photo.
Our friend needed to teach CPR to 10 people for his science class. We invited our neighbors over so he would have extra people to teach. This is Abe practicing chest compressions.
Abe ran in his last track meet this week-- the 6th grade district meet. Brandan took a photo of him running the 200 meter hurdles.
Gibson was recognized at his school assembly for having 150 accelerated reader points. The principal asked the kids receiving awards to stand. Gib is standing in the middle of the photo in a blue shirt.
Brandan and Helen started cleaning windows on Saturday and found mold in between the windows and the screens. Instead of cleaning the windows, they spent the morning scrubbing away the mold with toothbrushes and bleach. They wore masks to keep mold out of their lungs.
Saturday was also the prom. Sofi went with a great group of friends. From the left are AJ, Sofi, Josh, Joey, Carson and Ireland.
It took the girls four hours to get ready. They had a slow start, but they were working to the last minute. The boys were a little incredulous that it would take so long to get dressed and do hair and makeup. The girls decided not to tell them about the additional four hours spent the night before trying out hairstyles and doing all the prep work for Saturday.
The boys planned a great day of activities-- picnic lunch and ultimate frisbee before separating to get dressed for the prom. They then met for photos before dinner and the dance. After the dance they wandered around the neighborhood chatting, then played games, told ghost stories, and griped about the DJ at prom. They were home before midnight.
Just for fun-- Ireland, Joey and Sofi with their facials the night before. Can you tell who is who?
2 comments:
What did you do with the eggs? Those fetch a pretty high price... I remember my dad bringing home a salmon, excited to harvest the eggs to eat. Then he over salted them. Yuck.
We were gone during most of May so it is fun to see a lot of what was going on. Luke would have loved the Salmon dissection.
The girls all looked beautiful for the prom.
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