passive aggressive

When we got home from Disney the school gave me a hard time about having Ladybug out of school .  In order to go to St. Louis she had to miss 1/2 day of school.  I knew they were going to give me a hard time again.  So I decided that Ladybug would produce a report about all she learned by missing 1/2 day of school.

INTRODUCTION

I missed school on October 7^th to go to St. Louis.  St. Louis is known as the “Gateway to the West.”  I did not get to go up in the arch this time so Mama got this photo off of the internet.  She promises that next time we go to St. Louis we will get to go up in the arch and I will be able to look down on the entire city.

REASONING

We went to St. Louis to visit family.  My Fuzzy (grandpa) was born there many years ago and grew up there.  My Papa (great grandpa) lives there.  He is the oldest person in my family.  He asks me the same question over and over.  It was hard to answer the same question many times.  But Mama told me that sometimes when people get old they forget things and we need to be really nice to them.

HISTORY

On Friday we went to Grant’s Farm.  Grant’s Farm was owned by Ulysses S. Grant who was the 18th President of the United States.  

We drove by his cabin that he built (Mama forgot to take a picture so she got this one off the internet).  This cabin does not have electricity or running water, just like it didn’t when it was first built.

On Saturday we went to a pumpkin patch.  It was decorated for Halloween.  Mama took this picture.  She tells me that this teepee is the type of house that Native Americans lived in a long time ago.  And that this carriage, which is pulled by horses, is what people rode around in before there were cars.

ANIMAL SCIENCE

Grant’s Farm has a lot of animals that are allowed to roam free and be wild.  Here are just a few pictures of some of animals that we saw while there.  Most of them did not want to come near us so they were hard to get pictures of them.

I tried to feed a camel.  He wasn’t hungry.  The signs near the camel said that camels “bite and spit” so I had to be careful around them.

During the animal education show I also learned that pot belly pigs are almost as smart as dolphins.  And I know that dolphins are really smart because I recently watched A Dolphin Tale.

 

 

I saw a lot of different types of chickens.  Even a fuzzy one.

I got to see kangaroos and peacocks.  But the peacocks would not spread it’s feathers.

But the thing I liked the most was to feed the baby goats.  Baby goats eat milk but since these didn’t live with their mommies, people get to feed them with a bottle.  It was a lot of fun.

ORNITHOLOGY

Mama says that when people learn about birds it is called ornithology.  While at Grant’s Farm, during the animal education performance, I learned a lot about birds.

I saw this hawk.  I don’t remember what kind of hawk it is but it seemed really smart.

I saw this ostrich.  I learned that they do not fly because they are so big and heavy.  But they can run really fast.

I saw this bald eagle, which is the national bird of America.  I learned that when America was first started and they were trying to decide which bird would be our national bird that some people wanted it to be the turkey.  But now we eat turkey.

People say that owls our very smart but I learned that is not true.  They told me that an owl’s eyes are so big that it doesn’t leave much room in their head for a brain so they have very small brains.  I also learned that owl’s can not turn their heads all the way around like most people say.

MATH

At Grant’s Farm I got to do math with the parrots.  Someone in the audience asked the bird how much 2 X 3 was.  The bird picked the number 6 – which my Mama tells me is right.  Another person in the audience asked the bird how much 3 + 4 was.  The bird picked the number 10.  But when the audience told the bird that it was wrong the bird picked the number 7 – which is right.

I also played with my Leapster while on the plane.  I have a game that makes me pick the right numbers and add some numbers together. 

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

On Friday night I went to dinner at my great aunt’s house.  This part of my family is Jewish so for Friday night dinner we did the Sabbath.  My aunt lit candles and said a prayer in Hebrew.  Hebrew is the language of the Jewish religion.  My cousins did prayers in Hebrew to bless the bread and wine.  My aunt served matzo ball soup, brisket, noodle kugel, and challah bread.  I didn’t like any of it – except the bread.

READING

On Thursday night I crawled in bed and read with Fuzzy and Grandma about princesses.  There wasn’t much of a story in the coloring book so we had to make up most of it.  On Friday night we borrowed a book from my aunt and I read it to Grandma before bed.  We read Mr. Brown Can Moo.  Can you?  I like reading all the noises in the book.

I also played with my Leapster game while on the plane to and from St. Louis.  I have a game that asks me to spell words.

ART

I didn’t get a chance to do much art on this trip.  Mama did bring my coloring book so I did a lot of coloring while in the hotel.  Mama also made me watch a show on PBS about painting.  I like to paint but Mama says it is too messy so I can not do it at home.  This person painted lots of pretty purple flowers.

PE

I did a lot of walking while in St. Louis.  I also went swimming…

Went swinging…

Rode horses…

Jumped in a few bouncy houses…

Rode a merry-go-round…

AGRICULTURE

 Mama says that agriculture is learning to grow things in the ground.  I like to work in a garden.  Mama does not.  I saw this tractor at a pumpkin patch we went to on Saturday.  It looked new.

I got to sit on this tractor.  Look at the wheels.  I told Mama that these wheels dig holes in the ground as it drives over it.  The holes help farmers to put seeds in the ground so that plants can grow.

ENGINEERING

We went to Steak ‘N Shake for breakfast on Saturday.  The waitress brought us 4 straws because there were 4 people.  I was the only person who wanted to use the straws.  I wanted use all of them.  Fuzzy showed me how to fit one straw into another building a very tall straw.  I learned that my arms were not long enough to hold the cup and drink from this really long straw so Grandma had to hold the cup below the table for me.  I also learned that I had to suck a lot in order to get my juice from the cup to my mouth.  The waiter offered to bring more straws so I could build it even higher but Mama said no.

While at the pumpkin patch I also got to see some really tall pyramids of pumpkins.  Each pumpkins had to be put carefully on top of the other so that they would not all roll down hill.  It was very pretty.

POP CULTURE

Grant’s Farm is where there are Clydesdale horses.  These are the horses that are used in some TV commercials.  A normal horse is about 1000 pounds and can be any color.  A Clydesdale horse is more than 2000 pounds.  In order to be used in the TV commercials and pull the wagon they must also have a white blaze down their face, have white “feathers” on their feet, their body must be brown, and their tale and mane must be black.  While at Grant’s farm we met a Clydesdale horse that is named Jerry, which is my Papa’s name.

SPORTS

While we were in St. Louis my Fuzzy told me that it was very important to learn about baseball.  But not just any baseball.  He says the most important baseball is Cardinals baseball.  In St. Louis, we watched one of the baseball games on TV.  Fuzzy says this is “post season” which means they are trying to win at being the best team.  The Cardinals won the game we watched so that means they get to continue playing.

I might have gone overboard????

Mean Mama