Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Lunar Eclipse Tnight/Morning
Are yall gunna watch???? Ill be up;)LOLOLOL
Best time for us in the mts is 12:45 ish
Ill post pics:)
Lunar Eclipse Falls on Winter Solstice for First Time in Centuries
As many as 1.5 billion people worldwide will be able to watch when the Earth's shadow creeps across the moon's surface early Tuesday morning, the first time in hundreds of years that a lunar eclipse will fall on the winter solstice.
With the full moon high in the winter sky, the lunar eclipse will be visible from four continents, with the best views from North America and Central America if weather permits, scientists say.
lunar eclipse
Heribert Proepper, AP
The moon appears totally covered by shadow as the Earth passes between the moon and the sun during a lunar eclipse in January 2001.
"It's a really democratic event," Andrew Fraknoi, the chairman of astronomy at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, told the San Francisco Chronicle, "because you don't need an expensive telescope or any other sophisticated equipment to enjoy the spectacle -- just your eyes or, if you like, a pair of binoculars."
Unlike a solar eclipse, eclipses of the moon can usually be observed anywhere in the hemisphere where the moon is above the horizon.
This particular lunar eclipse also may be seen in totality from northern and western Europe, some of northeast Asia, Hawaii and New Zealand, according to Space.com. In total, some 1.5 billion people may have a chance to see the full eclipse, the website reported.
Total lunar eclipses during winter in the northern hemisphere are fairly common, NASA says. However, a lunar eclipse falling precisely on the date of the solstice is quite rare.
Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years for NASA.
"Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is 1638 DEC 21," Chester said, according to NASA. "Fortunately we won't have to wait 372 years for the next one ... that will be on 2094 DEC 21."
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This year's event will take 3 hours and 38 minutes. The eclipse begins on Tuesday at 1:33 a.m. ET, when the Earth's dark-red shadow will turn up on the edge of the moon, according to NASA. It will take about an hour for the shadow to cover the entire moon. Totality begins at 2:41 a.m. and lasts for 72 minutes.
If you only have time for a quick look, NASA recommends that you take a peek 3:17 a.m. ET. That's when the moon will be fully covered in an amber light.
For more information on how often the December full moon coincides with the solstice, see this explanation of Greenwich mean time and the resulting time zones.
Best time for us in the mts is 12:45 ish
Ill post pics:)
Lunar Eclipse Falls on Winter Solstice for First Time in Centuries
As many as 1.5 billion people worldwide will be able to watch when the Earth's shadow creeps across the moon's surface early Tuesday morning, the first time in hundreds of years that a lunar eclipse will fall on the winter solstice.
With the full moon high in the winter sky, the lunar eclipse will be visible from four continents, with the best views from North America and Central America if weather permits, scientists say.
lunar eclipse
Heribert Proepper, AP
The moon appears totally covered by shadow as the Earth passes between the moon and the sun during a lunar eclipse in January 2001.
"It's a really democratic event," Andrew Fraknoi, the chairman of astronomy at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, told the San Francisco Chronicle, "because you don't need an expensive telescope or any other sophisticated equipment to enjoy the spectacle -- just your eyes or, if you like, a pair of binoculars."
Unlike a solar eclipse, eclipses of the moon can usually be observed anywhere in the hemisphere where the moon is above the horizon.
This particular lunar eclipse also may be seen in totality from northern and western Europe, some of northeast Asia, Hawaii and New Zealand, according to Space.com. In total, some 1.5 billion people may have a chance to see the full eclipse, the website reported.
Total lunar eclipses during winter in the northern hemisphere are fairly common, NASA says. However, a lunar eclipse falling precisely on the date of the solstice is quite rare.
Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years for NASA.
"Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is 1638 DEC 21," Chester said, according to NASA. "Fortunately we won't have to wait 372 years for the next one ... that will be on 2094 DEC 21."
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This year's event will take 3 hours and 38 minutes. The eclipse begins on Tuesday at 1:33 a.m. ET, when the Earth's dark-red shadow will turn up on the edge of the moon, according to NASA. It will take about an hour for the shadow to cover the entire moon. Totality begins at 2:41 a.m. and lasts for 72 minutes.
If you only have time for a quick look, NASA recommends that you take a peek 3:17 a.m. ET. That's when the moon will be fully covered in an amber light.
For more information on how often the December full moon coincides with the solstice, see this explanation of Greenwich mean time and the resulting time zones.
Friday, December 17, 2010
A Christian Christmas Advent Calendar
Man-I found this a bit late-but how cool is this!!!!!
-each day until Christmas you have:
A Bible Reading
An Activity
A Craft
A Christmas Recipe
A Christmas Hymn
A Fun Christmas Song
A Christian Christmas Advent Calendar: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
-each day until Christmas you have:
A Bible Reading
An Activity
A Craft
A Christmas Recipe
A Christmas Hymn
A Fun Christmas Song
A Christian Christmas Advent Calendar: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Me Oh My-17 More Days!!!!
WOW!! I cant believe how this month is flying by.....tomorrow Dh has a Daddy /Daughter date and I plan on finishing up any Christmas I have forgotten down in Brigham.
Our house is all Christmasy! WHOOT!! But darn weather-its been raining and its melted almost all of our snow-I hate soggy, yucky ground weather....Id much rather have SNOW!!!! Just not tom though...okay!:)
Stingers best friend from school has moved back-man we sure were missing him-especially Stinger....so its all good at school-really good infact. He's still doing really well-all A's and B's :)And he is really looking forward to having him come over and play soon-maybee even a sleep-over.....wow-eh?
Monkey Boy and Flamingo are crazy as all get out-especially when they start feeling Christmas-which in our house isnt hard to do-LOLOLOL They are sooo excited and I love seeing their excited faces. They are both doing really well in school as well. Monkey boy is getting a pizza prize tom at school for doing really well on a test he took:) Hes very proud abt that.
Something got me thinking tnight though...abt Stinger and how well he is doing.. Hes still having a really tough time with conversations with certain people etc, strangers. I know he wants to say something and can-just I dont know if he knows what-ya know...its kinda hard to describe... I read something on one of my email lists with Aspies which I am going to try and do which is exactly what Stinger needs to work on....
"Hi ------,
We have worked quite a bit on conversation. I have a stack of index cards, each with a conversation topic (such as current movies, favorite books, favorite toys, what did you do yesterday, mom, dad, grandparents, rollerskating, the beach, etc).
I used a lot of ideas from Teach Me Language by Sabrina Freeman and Lorelei Dake. I pick up a topic at random and say a comment (My mom lives in California) and then my son is to say a comment on the topic (My mom lives in Naperville). Work up to 6 exchanges.
Now we are working on a comment-question format. My son is to start the conversation by making a comment on the topic and asking me a question. I answer the question. Then me makes a comment on my answer and asks another question. I answer. He comments and asks a question, I answer (6 turns).
(copyrighted material - Teach Me Language by Sabrina Freeman and Lorelei Dake)
Currently, I use 3 stacks of cards. The green stack has conversation openers ("Hi guys!" "Hi, what's up?" and "Excuse me.") The middle stack has 3 cards with conversation topics. The red stack has conversation closers ("Hey, there's my mom. I have to go" "It's been cool talking to you. Later" "Bye-bye.") He chooses an opener from the green stack, then chooses a conversation, and then a conversation closer. This teaches him how to start and end conversations, and also teaches conversation flexibility.
We also practice conversations he can have with specific people. For example - we are going to see Teegan and she has a pet rabbit. What questions can you ask her about her rabbit (what is the rabbit's name, how long has she had the rabbit, where did she get the rabbit, etc). I tell him that he can only say 2 things about his special interest, so I try to give him other things to talk about.
I hope this helps."
Stinger really struggles with openers and closers-inbetween conversations he does really well at, or he has really improved on...but say he sees me come to pick him up-he wont say goodbye or anything to the teacher etc-he will just leave-ya know...Same thing when he sees someone...So I think I will try this-its a really good idea dont you think?
Anyway-just some catch up...I havent been on her much-Ive been watching Glenn...LOLOLOL
But I will update when I can :)
Our house is all Christmasy! WHOOT!! But darn weather-its been raining and its melted almost all of our snow-I hate soggy, yucky ground weather....Id much rather have SNOW!!!! Just not tom though...okay!:)
Stingers best friend from school has moved back-man we sure were missing him-especially Stinger....so its all good at school-really good infact. He's still doing really well-all A's and B's :)And he is really looking forward to having him come over and play soon-maybee even a sleep-over.....wow-eh?
Monkey Boy and Flamingo are crazy as all get out-especially when they start feeling Christmas-which in our house isnt hard to do-LOLOLOL They are sooo excited and I love seeing their excited faces. They are both doing really well in school as well. Monkey boy is getting a pizza prize tom at school for doing really well on a test he took:) Hes very proud abt that.
Something got me thinking tnight though...abt Stinger and how well he is doing.. Hes still having a really tough time with conversations with certain people etc, strangers. I know he wants to say something and can-just I dont know if he knows what-ya know...its kinda hard to describe... I read something on one of my email lists with Aspies which I am going to try and do which is exactly what Stinger needs to work on....
"Hi ------,
We have worked quite a bit on conversation. I have a stack of index cards, each with a conversation topic (such as current movies, favorite books, favorite toys, what did you do yesterday, mom, dad, grandparents, rollerskating, the beach, etc).
I used a lot of ideas from Teach Me Language by Sabrina Freeman and Lorelei Dake. I pick up a topic at random and say a comment (My mom lives in California) and then my son is to say a comment on the topic (My mom lives in Naperville). Work up to 6 exchanges.
Now we are working on a comment-question format. My son is to start the conversation by making a comment on the topic and asking me a question. I answer the question. Then me makes a comment on my answer and asks another question. I answer. He comments and asks a question, I answer (6 turns).
(copyrighted material - Teach Me Language by Sabrina Freeman and Lorelei Dake)
Currently, I use 3 stacks of cards. The green stack has conversation openers ("Hi guys!" "Hi, what's up?" and "Excuse me.") The middle stack has 3 cards with conversation topics. The red stack has conversation closers ("Hey, there's my mom. I have to go" "It's been cool talking to you. Later" "Bye-bye.") He chooses an opener from the green stack, then chooses a conversation, and then a conversation closer. This teaches him how to start and end conversations, and also teaches conversation flexibility.
We also practice conversations he can have with specific people. For example - we are going to see Teegan and she has a pet rabbit. What questions can you ask her about her rabbit (what is the rabbit's name, how long has she had the rabbit, where did she get the rabbit, etc). I tell him that he can only say 2 things about his special interest, so I try to give him other things to talk about.
I hope this helps."
Stinger really struggles with openers and closers-inbetween conversations he does really well at, or he has really improved on...but say he sees me come to pick him up-he wont say goodbye or anything to the teacher etc-he will just leave-ya know...Same thing when he sees someone...So I think I will try this-its a really good idea dont you think?
Anyway-just some catch up...I havent been on her much-Ive been watching Glenn...LOLOLOL
But I will update when I can :)
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