Hey guys! I just wanted to tell you that FFF will be in the morning on Friday because my older brother is coming to visit. He lives 5 hours away and he visits like 2 - 3 times a year because he is SUPER busy! I am so excited for his visit! Oh! and the poll on my blog is ending very soon!
Vote NOW!
Stay Smart Girls!
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
No posts on.......
No posts on Monday! Sorry. My family and I go to a homeschool co-op on Monday, so if you ask me a question, I won't answer until Tuesday or later. Sorry! I am gone all day on Monday. I leave at 7:30 and come back at 6:30.
Frog Eggs!
Hey guys! I found frog eggs in a wagon my dad doesn't use anymore! It rained last night and there was grass growing in it. Today I went outside and found them! I am researching on how to raise them. Do you have any tadpoles/frogs or frog eggs? I would LOVE to hear them. I am thinking of some names if some of them look different (or else they would all look the same)
Any tadpole/frog names?
Any tadpole/frog names?
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Boxcar Children Movie!
Hey guys! My brother is reading the boxcar children as homework in our homeschool co-op. I found the movie! It came out last month. It is so cool! You can rent it on amazon for seven days. Just thought I should share it with you :)
Friday, September 19, 2014
Facebook page needs likes!
Hey guys! You might know I created a Facebook page for this blog. It really needs some likes. Girl Smarts would really appreciate it! The page is called Girl smarts ,for this blog,
Here is the link
If ^^^ link doesn't work, try this website: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Girl-Smarts/255021131343597
Here is the link
If ^^^ link doesn't work, try this website: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Girl-Smarts/255021131343597
Banana Muffins!
Hi guys! I am posting a lot today because I have some free time. So, today, me and my little brother made banana muffins! Yummy! They were soo good!
Here is the recipe:
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups
all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon
baking soda
- 1 teaspoon
baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon
salt
- 3 bananas,
mashed
- 1 cup white
sugar
- 1 egg, lightly
beaten
- 1/2 cup butter,
melted
- 1/4 teaspoon
ground cinnamon
½ cup chocolate
chips
It doesn't say what to do, so I will tell you what I did.
I put the bananas, butter, eggs, and sugar in one bowl. I put the rest in another bowl. While I was doing that, I preheated the oven to 350 degrees F. when everything is mixed, Put both mixtures into the biggest bowl. (In my case it was the one with bananas in) Then add the chocolate chips and cook until they are golden, or stick a toothpick in and it comes out clean (If the toothpick only has chocolate chip on it, that is fine.)
I also added a secret ingredient: Vanilla Extract.
Can you read it? I made it like that so you could only read it if you really wanted to:)
Girls have the Smarts!!
Fall background and Blog changes
Hey guys! Have you noticed the new background I put on the blog? I put it in honor of the first the day of fall. I also have a new poll on the blog. I have not checked the website, so I need to make sure it is working. In Winter the background will be different. I will change it for every holiday and season except Easter and Halloween (Don't ask)
Girls have the Smarts! (Our new motto)
Girls have the Smarts! (Our new motto)
Fun fact friday
Georgia O' Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe was born in 1887 in Wisconsin. She grew up on a farm where she helped her family by cooking, sewing, and growing vegetables.
When she was five, O’Keeffe went to school at a one-room schoolhouse. She didn’t like school but she did enjoy the private art lessons she took after school. She knew she wanted to be an artist.
O’Keeffe’s family moved to Virginia where O’Keeffe started high school. Everyone at her school loved her drawings.
After high school, O’Keeffe went to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. She enjoyed it there but she got very sick after only one year and had to stop going. When she finally felt better, over a year later, O’Keeffe decided to study in New York instead. In 1912, she began taking drawing classes at the University of Virginia. She learned to paint in many different styles before she developed her own way of painting.
Georgia O’Keeffe was born in 1887 in Wisconsin. She grew up on a farm where she helped her family by cooking, sewing, and growing vegetables.
When she was five, O’Keeffe went to school at a one-room schoolhouse. She didn’t like school but she did enjoy the private art lessons she took after school. She knew she wanted to be an artist.
O’Keeffe’s family moved to Virginia where O’Keeffe started high school. Everyone at her school loved her drawings.
After high school, O’Keeffe went to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. She enjoyed it there but she got very sick after only one year and had to stop going. When she finally felt better, over a year later, O’Keeffe decided to study in New York instead. In 1912, she began taking drawing classes at the University of Virginia. She learned to paint in many different styles before she developed her own way of painting.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Fun fact friday!
Rosa parks!
Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913, died October 24, 2005. Her full name is Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. She is famous today for her civil rights activism, but mostly for being the black woman who refused to give up her seat on a city bus.
1. The famous bus ride
In Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made history by being the black woman who refused to obey the driver of the bus when he gave her the order to give up her seat on the city bus to make room for a white passenger. Her actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and made history. Her refusal became a key part of the modern movement for civil rights, and her actions sparked further action and set an example for many.
2. Work with Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks’ actions on that Montgomery bus gave her a legitimacy and made her an internationally recognized symbol of civil rights. Because of her prominent stance as a protestor of segregation based on race, she started interacting with and became a help to some of the other most famous civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King, Jr. Many of her actions helped him to gain a strong presence in the nation, and help keep the civil rights movement going forward.
3. Honors and awards
One of the reasons we still speak of Rosa Parks besides her role in the civil rights movement is because of the amount of recognitions and awards she received for the role that she played in the civil rights movement. She was highly honored for her part, in 1979 she won the Spingarn Medal; she won the Congressional Gold Medal; she is honored in a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol’s National Statuary Hall; and was given the posthumous honor of lying at the Capitol Rotunda.
4. Her stance
The reason Rosa Parks stance was so huge in the civil rights movement is because it challenged something many just took as a fundamental rule of society. During her time, there were rules that governed bus usage, some of which included that Blacks were to pay at the front of the bus, but must then get off the bus and walk to the back entrance to be seated. Blacks could not sit in the front of the bus, as the first four rows were reserved for white people. Blacks who sat in middle rows were required to give up their seat if a white person needed one. Rosa bucked the rules and did so on her own, changing the face of history.
5. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Parks sparked a revolution. Her refusal to give up her seat, and subsequent arrest for something so trivial, led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It was organized on her behalf, and announced at church and in the paper. The boycott was well organized, rallies formed, and many kept the boycott up until they got some of their demands.
The demands included: black drivers would be hired, seating in the middle of the bus would be handled on a first-come-first-serve basis, and the rules or laws governing bus riding be changed. The boycott went on for 381 days, and ended when the laws requiring segregation on public buses were lifted.
6. The MIA
The Montgomery Bus Boycott led to the formation of a new organization, the Montgomery Improvement Association. This formation was created to lead the boycott, and once of the first leaders was the to-date relatively unknown, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. So, Rosa Parks was the reason for the boycott, thus the formation of the MIA, and part of Martin Luther King, Jr. rise to fame.
7. International news
Parks’ actions were not something normal, and thus the whole situation was publicized, and brought international attention to the issue of racial discrimination. The US was not the only place where people were discriminated against because of color, and Rosa’s stand inspired boycotts in other parts of the world as well, including a bus boycott in the township of Alexandria, Eastern Cape of South Africa.
8. Browder versus Gayle
Rosa Parks was directly connected to this federal lawsuit that was used to change the state bus segregation laws. This is the suit that led to the laws being challenged, and eventually to segregation laws changing and being lifted.
9. Her sacrifice
Rosa Parks would not be well known today if her stand on the bus, and refusal to give up her seat had not lead to serious consequences and sacrifices for her and her family. As a result of her stand, Rosa was arrested, mistreated, lost her job, and became a public figure, constantly a person being either looked to for inspiration, or spat on to make an example of. Her husband also lost his job, and her family lost much of their privacy.
10. Her autobiography
Rosa Parks did not just inspire change during the civil rights movement, but through an autobiography she wrote in 1992, aimed at the youth today, she inspired many to stand up for their beliefs, and understand the difference one person can make.
Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913, died October 24, 2005. Her full name is Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. She is famous today for her civil rights activism, but mostly for being the black woman who refused to give up her seat on a city bus.
1. The famous bus ride
In Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made history by being the black woman who refused to obey the driver of the bus when he gave her the order to give up her seat on the city bus to make room for a white passenger. Her actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and made history. Her refusal became a key part of the modern movement for civil rights, and her actions sparked further action and set an example for many.
2. Work with Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks’ actions on that Montgomery bus gave her a legitimacy and made her an internationally recognized symbol of civil rights. Because of her prominent stance as a protestor of segregation based on race, she started interacting with and became a help to some of the other most famous civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King, Jr. Many of her actions helped him to gain a strong presence in the nation, and help keep the civil rights movement going forward.
3. Honors and awards
One of the reasons we still speak of Rosa Parks besides her role in the civil rights movement is because of the amount of recognitions and awards she received for the role that she played in the civil rights movement. She was highly honored for her part, in 1979 she won the Spingarn Medal; she won the Congressional Gold Medal; she is honored in a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol’s National Statuary Hall; and was given the posthumous honor of lying at the Capitol Rotunda.
4. Her stance
The reason Rosa Parks stance was so huge in the civil rights movement is because it challenged something many just took as a fundamental rule of society. During her time, there were rules that governed bus usage, some of which included that Blacks were to pay at the front of the bus, but must then get off the bus and walk to the back entrance to be seated. Blacks could not sit in the front of the bus, as the first four rows were reserved for white people. Blacks who sat in middle rows were required to give up their seat if a white person needed one. Rosa bucked the rules and did so on her own, changing the face of history.
5. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Parks sparked a revolution. Her refusal to give up her seat, and subsequent arrest for something so trivial, led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It was organized on her behalf, and announced at church and in the paper. The boycott was well organized, rallies formed, and many kept the boycott up until they got some of their demands.
The demands included: black drivers would be hired, seating in the middle of the bus would be handled on a first-come-first-serve basis, and the rules or laws governing bus riding be changed. The boycott went on for 381 days, and ended when the laws requiring segregation on public buses were lifted.
6. The MIA
The Montgomery Bus Boycott led to the formation of a new organization, the Montgomery Improvement Association. This formation was created to lead the boycott, and once of the first leaders was the to-date relatively unknown, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. So, Rosa Parks was the reason for the boycott, thus the formation of the MIA, and part of Martin Luther King, Jr. rise to fame.
7. International news
Parks’ actions were not something normal, and thus the whole situation was publicized, and brought international attention to the issue of racial discrimination. The US was not the only place where people were discriminated against because of color, and Rosa’s stand inspired boycotts in other parts of the world as well, including a bus boycott in the township of Alexandria, Eastern Cape of South Africa.
8. Browder versus Gayle
Rosa Parks was directly connected to this federal lawsuit that was used to change the state bus segregation laws. This is the suit that led to the laws being challenged, and eventually to segregation laws changing and being lifted.
9. Her sacrifice
Rosa Parks would not be well known today if her stand on the bus, and refusal to give up her seat had not lead to serious consequences and sacrifices for her and her family. As a result of her stand, Rosa was arrested, mistreated, lost her job, and became a public figure, constantly a person being either looked to for inspiration, or spat on to make an example of. Her husband also lost his job, and her family lost much of their privacy.
10. Her autobiography
Rosa Parks did not just inspire change during the civil rights movement, but through an autobiography she wrote in 1992, aimed at the youth today, she inspired many to stand up for their beliefs, and understand the difference one person can make.
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Fun Fact Saturday?
Sorry I posted FFF (Fun fact Friday) so late. I was busy homeschool shopping. But at least I remembered. Yay!
FFF: Helen Keller!
Interesting Facts about Helen Keller
- Annie Sullivan was often called the "Miracle Worker" for the way she was able to help Helen.
- Helen became very famous. She met with every President of the United States from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon Johnson. That's a lot of presidents!
- Helen starred in a movie about herself called Deliverance. Critics liked the movie, but not a lot of people went to see it.
- She loved dogs. They were a great source of joy to her.
- Helen became friends with famous people such as the inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell and the author Mark Twain.
- She wrote a book titled Teacher about Annie Sullivan's life.
- Two films about Helen Keller won Academy Awards. One was a documentary called The Unconquered (1954) and the other was a drama called The Miracle Worker (1962) starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.
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