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| Snapshot Summary, August 18-23 |
On Saturday, we went to Davy Crockett Days at Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park. They had period craftsmen there who showed the kids how they made their crafts. We went to the museum there, and then to the encampment, which was on the Limestone River; a beautiful site. They enjoyed dancing to the fiddle music.
On Sunday night Steven took Katie, James and Quentin to their first baseball game.
We finished up our study of mollusks this week.
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We finished up our study of mollusks this week.
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| Alex's (18 years old, special needs) notebook A hermit crab doesn't make the shell in which it lives. The shell is made by a snail that has died. |
Alex wanted to draw a hermit crab, even though it is not a mollusk, but a crustacean, so we were able to discuss this and he wrote about the fact that the hermit crab uses an abandoned sea snail shell for its shell.
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| Alex's (18 years old, special needs) notebook Wentletrap Named after the Dutch word for "spiral staircase." They eat anemones or coral. Whelks The most common predator of bivalves. |
We had noticed that many of our bivalve shells had little holes in them. The boys thought they would be useful in making a necklace with them. We learned that they had been made from predators such as the Whelk which drill the hole into the clam shell in order to suck out the clam.
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| From Alex's Tennessee notebook. He noted that the Capitol building has Ionic columns... |
We have been studying Tennessee history and geography; this week particularly looking at the architectural styles of the important buildings in Tennessee.
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| and the L and N Union Station was built in the Romanesque style. |
We also took a look at cowboys and the western cattle drives.
Katie went to a yard sale and bought the little boys the Narnia movie, and she thought that Turkish Delight would be a wonderful movie-time treat. I decided that making it ourselves with the tiny kitchen we have now wouldn't be much fun, so I ordered some online. We were delighted when it came (imported from Istanbul) and opened up the box to see this delightful packaging. The candy was delicious, too, with an assortment of "plain" (somewhat citrus flavored), rosewater, pistachio and hazelnut flavors.
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