God is with us!

Last Monday there was a big wind storm during the night. A tree fell over and caused the power to go out. Late that night Mom and Dad were up with a friend of ours trying to get the heat back on with the generator. Meanwhile, a guy from GVEA (electric company) was outside in the wind, fixing the power line. The treee that hit the power line was about ten feet from the house and could have easily crushed it. Five other trees fell down that day, too. God protected us from all the dangers that night.

A Very Cool Mammal

For a school assignment, I made this report about Arctic Foxes.

Step 1 Go to the libry and pick out a mammal book.
Step 2 Read the book.
Step 3 Get information from the book and write it down in list form.
Step 4 Put the information in paragraph form.
Step 5 Scan map from the book to computer.

This was a fun biology project for me.

The Best Adapted Animal in the World?
By Connor Albers
11-16-11

The scientific name of the Arctic Fox is Vulpes Lagopus. They are in order Carnivora.
Arctic Foxes live the farthest north of any land mammal, and they have the warmest fur of a mammal.
Arctic Fox’s ears and nose are short to keep their body heat in. It uses its tail as a blanket. When it gets too cold, they dig a hole in the snow to burrow in. In the summer, they store body fat to act as insulation. In the winter their coats are white; in the summer they are brown. Different fox families use the same den for a long time.
Their babies are called cubs, and are born in May or June. Seven to 15 cubs are born in one litter.
Arctic Foxes are omnivores, and eat lemmings, birds, eggs, berries and other things. They store their food in the ground in “caches”.
I think that the Arctic Fox is pretty well adapted to its habitat in the arctic. In fact, is the most adapted mammal that I know of.

What does a snowmachine look like on the inside?

A couple days ago we thought there might be a problem with the pull-start in our snow machine. So, yesterday we went into the garage where it was parked and took it apart. We discovered no problems. The gears were all nice and "teethy", and the pull-start worked fine. Then we put it back together, and it started up well. Then Mom and Dad drove it to the Tesoro to gas it up.

These are some pictures of various parts from the snow machine:

These are the gears that are "teethy".

PLAYING WITH FRIENDS

Last Friday we drove up to Healy to meet and play with another homeschool family. We sledded down a steep hill on the road and played a game inside.

On Sunday, we had Titus over to play. We drove my remote controlled tank around in the church and built ramps for it. We also rode on our four-wheeler in the snow. That was a fun day!

The Piano

A couple days ago I was taking piano lessons and Mom realized I wasnt having too much fun. The reason was because the songs in the book were kind of "dumb." They had lyrics that were for little kids. Now I am in a new piano lesson book that has better songs for me. I am learning where the notes are on the piano and hope I improve soon.