What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews Zoo Borns by Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland and Breaking Cat News: Cats Reporting on the News that Matters to Cats by Georgia Dunn.
Wordless Wednesday: The Almost-Summer Games
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“How can you tell the difference between a male cricket and a female one?”
A third grade science project had us playing host to a series of crickets this past spring. We had a series of them because our cat, frankly, is not very good with house guests. Anyway, we’ve learned a lot in the process. Like how you can tell the difference between male and female crickets.
What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews Wonder by R. J. Palacio’s Wonder and Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
Wordless Wednesday: Nine more days
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“Can crickets die of fright,” Part Two: “Do crickets have hearts?”
As you may remember from last week, The Nine-Year-Old and I have a working theory that her crickets, Narmer and Charles Allen, may have actually died from fright. We thought it was possible that after a certain unfortunate event, a surge of octopamine (the cricket version of adrenaline) flooded their system and caused their hearts to stop. Daddyo was not convinced. “Do crickets even have hearts?”
What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews Ava and Taco Cat by Carol Weston and Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus by Tom Angleberger. We also say a final farewell to the crickets.
Wordless Wednesday: The Nine-Year-Old visits the Terracotta Warriors at the Field
This week, my nine-year-old daughter and I went to see the Terracotta Warriors at the Field Museum in Chicago.
“Can crickets die of fright?”
For her third grade science project, The Nine-Year-Old has been keeping a series of crickets at home. I say series, because all the male crickets keep dying off. We can’t figure out why the one female cricket would be fine, while all the males are dying. Our working theory is that upon exposure to the Cricket Hellscape that is the 9YO’s room, the males are dying of fright. But can crickets die of fright?
The Nine-Year-Old interviews picture book characters: The Oliver and Jumpy edition
This week, The Nine-Year-Old interviewed one of her favorite picture book characters: Oliver, the tomcat from Werner Stejskal’s Oliver and Jumpy picture book series.
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