The More You Know :: Spring Edition

• Did you know that Oklahoma has only three seasons? Winter, summer, and tornado.

• Did you know that by May 12th of the year you first begin homeschooling you will be so ready for the school year to end that you will start to incorporate into your curriculum things like jumping on the trampoline (counts as P.E.), games of Twister (reinforces the concept of left vs. right, also the colors green, blue, yellow, and red), and flower bed gardening (because nature = science).

• Did you know there are muscles in your thighs and butt that you only ever discover are there on the day after you spend seven hours in a flower bed squatted down ripping out viney ground cover and rogue Bermuda grass from the dirt?

• Did you know that if you find a baby robin hopping around your backyard after a fall from its nest, you can put on gardening gloves and chase the little bird, despite protests in the form of  loud squawks and repeated dive-bombings from the robin’s parents, until you (gently) capture the baby, and return it to its nest?

• Did you know that you were lied to as a child when your Dad told you that if you touched a baby bird then its parents would abandon it because they would smell the human scent on their baby?

• Did you know that birds have a very poor sense of smell?

• Did you know that bees and dogs can smell fear*?

Enjoy your day.

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(*Name that movie.)

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