Backyard Exploring

So we had a play date with one of our friends named Owen. We went to go search the backyard. We went past are yard and into are neighbors yard. (We had brought are dog with us), So when we went to an electric fence Sophie are dog went and got shocked so we had to put her back home. So then we went back got under the electric fence then we went threw these bristles then we found these nice homes and didn't go any farther. So we went back and went the other way. There was a big garage thingy. We went past it and found the road so we went back home.

Tennis

So I started playing tennis and I wasn't that good at it. But after some time I started playing again and now i'am better at it. I got Djukovic's racket. Now I'am getting a stronger serve but still I need to work on my backhand. So have you ever seen a tennis court? Well it is practically a rectangle, it has a net in the middle there is alleys where you can only hit the ball in the alleys if you are playing two on two. If you are playing one on one then you can not play the alleys. So you have to tries to get your serve into the box to the side of you. If you don't get it in on either of the tries then the other person gets a point. You count the points from 15 to 30 to 45 then if he gets the next point he wins, but if both sides are at 45 then it is called duece. This means that if the next person gets a point he doesn't just win he has the advantage so if he wins the next point then he wins but if the other player gets a point then it is back to duece.                                                                                                                                                            

Lions

A lion sleeps around 18 hrs a day! The lion is the top land predator in the African savannah. A lion dad takes good care of his sons and daughters. He has very long mane but not the longest the Muskrat and the yak are tied for third longest in the hair contest. The horse is second the longest measured hair was 18 ft! But the longest hair is the human if a woman grew her hair it is the longest, its been measured to 18 ft 5 inches. Out of the thirty six kinds of wild cats the lions have the biggest family. One really strange thing is that the male lion pees backwards, male dogs pee by lifting their legs up and the male wildcat pees backwards.                                                                   

Humming Birds

The humming bird hovers to drink nectar. Most birds just fly forwards but the humming bird even flies backwards. They can fly like this because their wings flap in figure eights. Their wings flap 100 times per second! There are 356 species of humming birds 51 of those birds are endangered. Regularly the birds have wing bones shaped as an arm but the humming bird has a wing bone shaped like a hand. It has to drink every ten minutes to stay in the air hovering. When it sleeps it sort of  hibernates it gets cold enough to get hypothermia it lays on its back and looks as if it is dead, this is called Torpor.

Spiders

There are over forty thousand species of spiders. Spiders are not actually insects they are arachnids. All arachnids have eight legs and two sections, the head and the abdomen. Towards the end of the abdomen there are these things called spinnerets that push out the silk, it has six mixtures to have the exact right stuff to be strong enough for the web. The silk is stronger than steel if there is a lot of it. There is this spider named the Orb spider which has golden silk and extra strong silk, it can catch birds in it but the bird is the main predator to the spiders. They make their web with first the diagonal strips then the sticky ones in the spiral.

Neuer

Manuel Neuer is a soccer keeper for Germany. He was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on March 27, 1986. He started training keeper when he was five years old, he trained with Schalke he also trained at Gesamtschule Berger Feld, a place that trained people at sports, some other people that became soccer pros like Mesut Ozil. Neuer played for Schalke for a while till 2011 then Bayern Munich bought him. Everyone loved how he played goalkeeper he usually didn't let goals in. In the 2010 world cup they played him mostly but unfortunately Spain won the 2010 world cup, but this world cup 2014 he won it and he deserved it.

Giraffes

Giraffes have the longest necks in the world. Their necks are 7 ft long, they are the tallest animal in the world. The new born giraffe is taller than 6 ft.The new born giraffe is bigger than a new born human baby and can walk for 15 minutes and a new born human baby can't even walk he can only crawl.  The baby giraffe stays with its mother for one year then it goes on its own. It takes four years to grow into a full adult. It can grow 18 feet tall. It has seven neck bones in it's neck just like your neck only that they are much longer. It takes some effort to pump the blood up its long neck so its heart is huge and it has special blood vessels to help the blood not to fall back down.