Digestive system wondering

A lady from our church had to have her gall bladder taken out. We did some research to find out where the gall bladder is in our body. My mom helped us play this sticker game. I learned how all of the parts of the body work together to digest the food.

Modelling clay madness!

I love working with modelling clay because it feels so smooth.
In this picture I am making a blue flower.

I made a cool face.

I ''love'' my rainbow rings.

My flower kept falling over.

Modelling clay has a different texture than Playdoh.

Field trip to the fish hatchery!

This is the part of the salmon life cycle that we learned on this trip.

This is the food chain. The naturalist kept asking us: "Do the salmon need the bears? Do the bugs need the trees?" and so forth.

This is the male having it's milt taken out.

This is the female having it's eggs taken out.

There are over 2500 eggs in the female.

The black dot's on this leaf are insect eggs.

Katie was showing us the life cycle of a salmon.

These are preserved eggs, eggs with an eye, alevin, and fry.

These are a bear's claw marks on a piece of wood.

This is a tree that a beaver tried to chew down. The beaver left the tree because it is a hemlock and the wood is too hard for its teeth.

The naturalist said that she has never seen a beaver there and they don't know where the beaver's lodge is.

This is called a nurse stump. It grows new trees and plants on it's stump.

This is a gigantic ant hill.

Behind the bridge is a beaver dam.

This is the the river where the salmon spawn. The bubbles are air being pumped in to the water for the fish.

This is called a fish ladder.
Why they built it was because the salmon were having a hard time going up a waterfall.


This is a barrier to the salmon swimming upstream.


This whole tree is covered in moss.

This is the salmon ready for the dissection.

This is the swim bladder.
It helps the salmon to float.


These are the salmon's kidneys.
They're not shaped like human kidneys.

These are the eyeballs.
The plate is looking at you.

This is the gill cover. It is how the fish gets air from the water.

This is the fish's brain and spinal cord. When she pulled the spinal cord out, the whole body moved a lot.

This is the salmon's liver. It filters out poison.

This is the salmon's spleen. Its job is to fight diseases.

This is the salmon's stomach.

This is the milt sacs. They are only in males. Milt is white.

This is the heart. It kept beating even after being taken out.

This showed how few salmon survive til they spawn.

Book report: "Special Delivery" by Ann M. Martin

This story was about a girl and her sister and their grandmother. Their Aunt Allie was going to adopt a baby. Aunt Allie went to New York for two weeks to get the baby when it was born. It was not born in that period of time. So she went home then went back to New York to get the baby. When she got home the girls had a surprise baby shower for her!

The main characters of this story are named: Flora and Ruby. Flora and Ruby are sisters and their parents got killed in a car crash. Their grandmother is now looking after them. They live in Camden Falls, Massachusetts. Flora is 12 and Ruby is nine. Flora has dark brown hair and Ruby has blond hair. Both sisters have hazel eyes.

The sisters found it difficult waiting for the baby to come because they wanted to know if it was going to be a girl or a boy.

They overcame the difficulty of waiting by thinking of baby names like this: Douglas, Franklin, Pablo, Susan, Emily, Sarah, Theresa, Lily Sophia, Marilee Rose, Steven, and Augustania. They also planned a baby shower!

The part I liked best was when the baby came home and everybody came to the baby shower because everybody was so happy and excited. And because that was the baby's first home, and Aunt Allie was a mother!

I made a new cover for the book and here it is:


This story reminds me of when my cousin Daniel was born. I stayed up all night. I was so tired that night but it was worth it. My cousin Daniel was so cute and I even got to hold him!

Flora and Ruby were helpful by baby proofing the house and planning the baby shower. They got the baby's room ready too. The baby's room was pink and white.

The girls felt really proud and happy at the end.

I enjoyed the the story a lot!

I enjoyed the book because I love babies and I love reading exciting stories.