We start our blog this week!

This blog site had previously existed for the family dorm at salvation Army in Austin, TX.  Wish the hundreds of homeless families in austin, tx well.  they deserve an affordable place to live while they work full time to keep their families afloat.

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Biology at Alma d'arte

week one: we built models and then took turns teaching each other about the components.

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remember

All things in nature grow in spirals and follow a pattern that we call a Fibonacci sequence.

Fibonacci sequence:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34
1 plus 1 is 2
2 plus 3 is 5
3 plus 8 is 13
8 plus 13 is 21 and so forth, it can go on for infinity.

Everything grows in spirals:

about gardening

What kinds of food plants can we grow? We can grow tomatoes, green onion, peppers, mints.  Plants do best with some shade in areas where the sun is pretty strong. Plants need nutrients to grow so it is important to feed them compost, you can make your own compost by drying up any plant material and then adding it to your soil.  Earthworms can be used to make the compost faster.

source: http://survivalfarm.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/peppers-basil-earthworms-and-yuk-slugs/

History person of the week

The person of the week is Dr. Seuss.  His full name is Theodor Seuss Geisel and he was born in Springfield Massachusetts. He wrote an illustrated 46 books for children, his books have been translated in 20 different languages.  Before writing books for children he drew  advertisement illustrations for companies like NBC and General Electric.

animal of the week

Animal of the week is the octopus

Arts

Recent art activities