Two days 'til Christmas! Christmas fun on American girl!

Sorry! Short post today! Tomorrow will be the last chapter. Today, here is the American Girl Website. They have a lot of fun winter/Christmas things to do.

Stay Smart Girls!

Fun Fact Friday!

I said I would make this FFF from the polls I put on my blog. I choose one poll (The pet one) and the winner was Dog! Here are 25 fun facts about "Man's best friend"

1. A dog’s heart beats between 70 and 120 times a minute, compared with a human heart which beats 70 to 80 times a minute.
2. A dog’s normal body temperature is 100.5 to 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. A female carries her young about 60 days before the puppies are born.
4. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the smallest dog on record was a Yorkshire Terrier in Great Britain who, at the age of 2, weighed just 4 ounces.
5. The longest lived dog, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was an Australian Cattle Dog, named Bluey, who lived to be 29.
6. An adult dog has 42 teeth.
7. It is a myth that dogs are color blind. They can actually see in color, just not as vividly as humans. It is akin to our vision at dusk.
8. If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could produce over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!
9. The only sweat glands a dog has are between the paw pads.
10. In 1957, Laika became the first living being in space via an earth satellite
11. The world’s smartest dogs are thought to be (1) the border collie, (2) the poodle, and (3) the golden retriever.
12. Chocolate contains a substance known as theobromine (similar to caffeine) which can kill dogs or at the very least make them violently ill.
13. Dogs’ sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human’s
14. More than 1 in 3 American families own a dog.
15. Dogs don’t like rain because the sound is amplified and hurts their very sensitive ears.
16. The ten most popular dogs (AKC, 2007) are in order:
    Labrador Retriever, Yorkshire Terrier, German Shepherd,
    Golden Retriever, Beagle, Boxer, Dachshund, Poodle,
    Shih Tzu, and Bulldog.
17. Dogs were the first animals domesticated by people.
18. A greyhound can run as fast as 45 miles an hour.
19. Spaying/neutering your dog before the age of 6 months can help prevent cancer in your dog.
20. Puppies acquire a full mouth of permanent teeth between four and seven months old.
21. Small dogs live the longest. Toy breeds live up to 16 years or more. Larger dogs average is 7 – 12 years. Veterinary medicine have extended this estimate by about three years. However, some breeds, such as Tibetan terrier live as long as twenty years.
22. Eighty percent of dog owners buy their dog a present for holidays and birthdays. More than half of them sign letters and cards from themselves and their pets.
23. The dog name “Fido” is from Latin and means “fidelity.”
24. The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world.
25. Most pet owners (94 percent) say their pet makes them smile more than once a day.

Sources: (Funny Fidos)




Stay Smart Girls!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! What are you thankful for?
 

I am thankful for:

1. God. He made the wonderful earth and ME!
2. My family. I couldn't live without them
3. Friends. They put adventure and fun into my life
4. LEGOs. They are just so cool!

New polls on my blog!

Hi guys! I am going to put a few polls on my blog today! They will be ending in a week! I will put three. Fun Fact Friday next week will be based on the three winning answers, so please vote! It takes a few minutes for them to show up on my blog, so they might not be on right away.

:) Angie :)

MY Birthday is coming up!

YAY!!!!! My  birthday is on the 17th! I can't wait! Right now I am learning the guitar notes to "Happy Birthday" :) :) :)

This could be FFF so yeah.

FFF

Music Fun Fact!

Music (And art) helps you learn better ;)



Stay smart girls!

Solar eclipse today!

Hello everyone! Today something amazing is going to happen! A solar eclipse! This is when the earth sun and moon line up and the moon blocks part of the sun. The eclipse will be visible in most parts of Canada and the U.S.A. Click here to see if it is visible in your area. I made a pinhole camera to watch the eclipse. It is NOT safe to look directly at the sun, but you can make this with household items and watch the eclipse with no problem. Click on this link to found out how to make on. The date on this link is not right. Just pay attention on how to make the pinhole camera and you should be fine.

Have fun!

Astronomy Fun Fact Friday

Sorry FFF is late. I was very busy on Friday

This FFF is dedicated to Astronomy (Knowledge or study of the stars)

Mercury(The closest planet to the sun) fun facts!

• A day on Mercury is 53 Earth Days.
• A Year on mercury is 88 Earth Days, so a mercury year has less than two mercury days!
• During the day on mercury, It is 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Science it is the closest planet to the sun, you may think it is very hot all the time, but during the night on mercury, it is -300 degrees Fahrenheit!

Fun fact friday and polls

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!


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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
         

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:

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)

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.

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.

Fun Fact Friday!

Hey guys! I just started this new tradition of Fun Fact Friday! I hope you like it!

Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a plantation in Maryland. Historians think she was born in 1820, or possibly 1821, but birth records weren't kept by most slave owners. Her birth name was Araminta Ross, but she took the name of her mother, Harriet, when she was thirteen.

Life as a Slave

Life as a slave was difficult. Harriet first lived in a one-room cabin with her family that included eleven children. When she was only six years old, she was loaned out to another family where she helped take care of a baby. She was sometimes beaten and all she got to eat was table scraps.

Later Harriet worked a number of jobs on the plantation such as plowing fields and loading produce into wagons. She became strong doing manual labor that included hauling logs and driving oxen.

At the age of thirteen Harriet received a horrible head injury. It happened when she was visiting the town. A slave owner tried to throw an iron weight at one of his slaves, but hit Harriet instead. The injury nearly killed her and caused her to have dizzy spells and blackouts for the rest of her life.

 Harriet Escapes

In 1849 Harriet decided to escape. She would use the Underground Railroad. After a long and scary trip she made it to Pennsylvania and was finally free.

Fun Facts:

• Her nickname as a child was "Minty".
• She was a very religious woman having learned about the Bible from her mother.
• Harriet bought a house in Auburn, New York for her parents after helping them to escape from the south.
• Harriet married John Tubman in 1844. He was a free black man. She married again in 1869 to Nelson Davis.
• She was so successful in helping slaves to escape that, at one point, slave owners offered a reward of $40,000 for her capture.

Lego Birthday party!

Hey guys! I am back! Today's post is how to make an AWESOME birthday party! My brother gave me inspiration:
My brother is turning five in two days! He wants a LEGO party. (He is obsessed with Legos, and so am I.) Since I am the type of girl who loves to plan ahead of time, I immediately went to the computer for ideas. First, I looked for games. Here are some ideas. We are going to do number 7,10, 15, and maybe 21. I bought a Lego creator toy as the prize for #7. Then I went to look for decorations. I went to the Party City website. Unfortunately, they only had Lego star wars. I later found a website that said all you need for decorations, is yellow cups and a sharpie. you can draw a smiley face on the cups and they will be Lego minifigures. Then I wanted some sitting down activities. I could find anything. I went to The Lego chima website to play a game and found a Chima Party Kit. I printed the color pages, (WARNING! They use LOTS of ink.) and asked my mom about the garland. I didn't print the invitations because when we have a birthday, it is usually just family. Maybe friends if we play outside. I found these masks too.

That is how we are going to have a great birthday. I can't wait to set it up. I also got This for my brother. I can't wait to see the look on his face.

Bye! (You can wish happy birthday in the comments. I will give you a shout-out in my next post!)

Valentine's day crafts

Her is a website for some Valentine's day crafts for your dolls! Hope you have fun making them! Crafts for Valentines Day

Happy Valentine's day!

Hello!

Hello.

My name is Angie.
I love to do lots of things, and I thought I might start this blog. I like a lot of things, so any girl would find at least one thing they would like.
 Here are some of the things I might be posting in the future:

• American girl stuff
• Weather reports
• School projects
• Fun ideas
• Crafts
• Book reports (since I looove books!)
• Delicious recipes
• Gaming (such as Minecraft, Angry Birds, Cut the rope)
• ... And more!

So check in frequently for new posts!
If you would like me to post anything from this list, comment below and I will try to publish it if I can.