Fun Fact Monday Oct 25

Whooooo Is This?

image from The Atlantic 

It's a Burrowing Owl! 

image from Treehugger

This is a Great Horned Owl

Owls cannot roll their eyes around, so they have to move their entire head to get a look around.  Owls can rotate their heads 270 degrees in either direction.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

Lovely Owl

Owl head control

Fun Fact Monday Oct 18

 

Pumpkins!

image from Getty Images

Each pumpkin has about 500 seeds.  You can roast and eat the seeds, and the flowers are edible too!

image from Creative Connections for Kids

Here is a video called "A Pumpkin's Life" that shows how pumpkins grow:

A Pumpkin's Life

video courtesy of The Kid Should See This

See you next Monday!

Fun Fact Monday Oct 11

Beautiful Bagpipes

image from Musical Instrument Pro

A bagpipe is a woodwind instrument that uses reeds and air from a bag to make sounds.  Bagpipe instruments are very old, going back possibly to Roman times.

Shepherds used bagpipes to signal animals, and armies used the sound of a bagpipe to frighten their enemy.

Bagpipes - CBS Sunday Morning

Fun Fact Monday Oct 4

I wonder . . . .

This is a great website to learn something new! It can be found on the Student Resources page of the Shepard website.

image from Pinterest

This is a piragua.  A piragua is a shaved ice treat from Puerto Rico that looks very similar to a snow cone.  However, a piragua has a distinctive cone shape - thus the name:  "piramide" is Spanish for "pyramid", and "agua" means "water" 

Most common flavors are cherry, coconut, and lemon.