duck of differnt color

when you think of ducks what color are they in your mind are they white with oranger beaks or brownish with green shiny heads or fluff gray duckings the ducks here are wearing  a whole other set of colors they're called  black belied whishling duck  but we love theire  pink beack and funny white ring around thier cute little eyes their tummies are hidden wnderwater but you  cand probably guess that  thotherese feathers are  balck This was  picture  of the day on wikimedia 99one  day so we can see them very nicely  here but we can't  here them  they these ducks whistle to called ech other . They live Texas and Louisiana so if you vistit there  keep an eye and an ear out for these feathered friends can you count  the ducks in the picture how many do you see  8 duckhose duck s If 3 of those ducks win up ahead how many are lift behind 5 ducks. How  many ways could the duck split up into equal groups with more then one in each group.2 ways  2 groups of 4 duck or 4 groups 2 ducks. if a line of 30 ducks swins along and every 3rd  ducks whistles andthaevery 4th ducks quacks which  ducks do both the 12th and 24th ducks How many ducks don't make either sound 15 ducks the  3rd  6rd 9th  up to the 30th duck whistle 10 of them white  the 4th 8th  16th 20th and 28th quack 5 more because we already  counted the 12th and 24th. from called book bedtime math.

looking through space

 if people are living 

on venus and mars 

and looking through space 

at the planets and stars 

I wonder if earth 

seems a queer sort  of thing 

with whiteness in winter 

and greenness in spring.

from called book nature poetry 

global giving

 This  organization helps fund smaller community-led groups in more  than 175 countries. It  is currently funding relief efforts in Afghanistan after a  severe eathquake stuck the country on June 22. The money global giving raises will go toward providing  emergency assistance incloding food water medicine and shelter to people  who lost their  homes find out more  at GlobalGiving org. from called book time week junior. https://www.globalgiving.org

largest clear up on Everest

 since 2008  the eco Everest expedition have organized  annual trips to the world's highest mountain to clear away  rubbish from previous climbs. A record  away rubbish 6,000 kg (13,227 lb) of ropes tens food packaging oxygen bottles  gas canisters and sundry mountanineering gear has been callected to date. from called book Guinness worlds records. 

fightin was natural

highin was natural 

hurtin  was real 

and the leather like lead

on the end of my arm 

was a ticket to ride to 

the top  of  the hill 

fighting was real 

The sting of the ointment 

and  scream of  the crowd 

for blood in the ring 

and  the clangin bell cuttin 

clean through the 

cloud in  my ears 

boxin was real 

the  rope at my back

and the pad on the floor 

the smack of fuor hammers 

new bones in my jaw

the guardian my mouth 

my tongue  strain  to swell 

fight was livin 

boxin wasre real 

fightin was real 

livin was hell. 

form called book Maya  Angelou 

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old man moon

The moon is very very old  

The reason why is clear 

he gets a birthday  once a month 

instead of once a year. 

from called book nature poetry 

longest reef

The great barrier reef (gbr) off north eastern Australia is 2,027 km (1,260 mi) in length rough roughly the distance between the UK and Malta The gbr is in fact a reef  system comprising some 2, 900 separate colonies that cover 207,200 km2. (80,000 sq mi) living coral grows on deed polyps that can date back as much as 20 million  years. The reef os a doverse but fragile ecosystem that  faces nemerous threats not least  bleaching  where warming ocean waters cause symbiotic algae to be expelled leaving the coral withe a 2018 study revealed that the gbr suffered an unprecedented nine moth marine heatwave in 2016 during which almost 30% of coral in the reef died off. from called book Guinness world records.

most expensive work by a living art (auction)

 partrait on artist (pool with two figures) an acrylic on canvas painte by David Hockney (uk) a1972 sold for $ 90,312,500 ($ l 69,547,900) including buyer's premium at Christie's auction house in New York City usa on 15 now 2018 Hockney completed the piece  in an explosion of creative activity working 18 hr shifs for a fortnight. from called book Guinness  world records. 

grow on

about 80 percent of the plants in New Zealand are not found anywhere else in world and some them doubled as  dinosaur snacks plants like kauri a coniferous trees have ancestors that date back to the jurassic period. and new  zealand's magnificent lowland forests have been nicknamed dinosaur forest because of the prehstoric  plants that grow threr. from called book national geographic kid almanac.

world giraffe day

 stick your neck out for giraffes and raise awareness for these enchanting animals June 21 day. from  called book national geographic almanac.