Just Yoking

1. Where do geese go when they want to search online?
2. What award did the American football player win when he took gifts to Jesus?

1. Gaggle.com
2. The Weissman Trophy

Ginger Bread Houses

One of my favourite advent activites is making ginger bread houses. I went to J.'s class yesterday and helped the 1st grade kids make theirs. They started with a small milk carton and pasted Graham crackers all around with icing. When I got home, A. and I started on our own. We didn't have milk cartons so we had to stick the crackers together with icing, and then leave them to harden over night. Today the boys started making theirs. A. and I finished ours, and J. enhanced hers with some more M&Ms. Now to eat them!

A Bust of Sir Arminius Oliphant

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! I am
proud to present: a bust of the highly esteemed imaginary scholar, the accomplished Sir Oliphant!
Now that we've finished the pleasantries,
you may be asking yourself,"Who is this
Sir Oliphant?". Please do not trouble yourselves
with these questions. He is nothing but a figment
of my imagination.
Now that we have that cleared up, you may be wondering how I made the bust. That is what I
will tell you now.
to start, at the center of Sir Oliphant's head is a wooden rod about five inches long. Around that is
a rather thick layer of paper towel bound with
masking tape in the general shape of a human head.
After I accomplished this, I simply wrapped clay
around it in a way that it still looked like a head.
The first actual feature I formed was the nose.
Accordingly, the nose is a prominent feature in
Sir Oliphant's face. The rest was simple enough,
except for the hair, which, as hard as I tried,
would not be made in one piece.

Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon

My desire to know about astronomy greatly eclipses my knowledge of astronomy. When I heard that Venus and Jupiter were going to be visible near the moon this evening, I went out and snapped this picture on the digital camera. These three won't come together again until 2052.