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     This year, our family is doing the National Bible Bee again.  Besides memorizing the verses and reciting them each day, we also study the book of the Bible and the DJ.  It's easy to forget what I learned each week from the DJ, I found a way to review by making a summary of each lesson.  This way, I could review my DJ lesson again by making the summary.  Also, at the same time I would make it easier for myself to review that lesson again if I wanted to come back and study it again.      Here are each lesson's summaries: Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Sometimes, to review a specific part of a lesson that I have trouble with, I write it on an index (is that how you call it?) card. Lesson 7 Greek & Hebrew Words The other side of Lesson 7 Greek & Hebrew Words      To keep everything in one place (so I don't lose it or forget where it...

     After going Berry Picking, we visited Fort Vancouver.      The walls of the fort were made out of wooden logs with pointy ends that faced upward. This is inside the fort. There were several cannons inside the fort. Here are two of them. This sundial was found in front of a house.  They used it to tell the time. Inside the house, everything was set so that it looked like we were visiting it in the time of Fort Vancouver. I think this room was used for meals or tea. This is another room in the house. I think it was the dining room. Another room in the house. My younger sister and brother.  My sister is helping my brother with his junior ranger booklet. A stove in the cooking room. The cooking room had three ovens, and this is the third one (the one on the most right). All the doors of the houses had locks like this. To open the door, you lifted the lock and it would open. We also vi...

     After visiting Mt.St. Helens, we visited Cold Water Lake. From what I remember, Cold Water Lake used to be a creek, but after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens was turned into a lake. Spirit Lake (which is right next to Mt.St. Helens) was previously used for recreation, but after the eruption, it was closed for research. Because of that, they stocked Cold Water lake with fish and opened it for recreation. We hiked on a trail around Cold Water lake. The view was really nice.  We could even see Mt.St. Helens from there! Mount St. Helens from Cold Water Lake. There were lots of birds swimming in the water. Sometimes, they dunked their heads/bodies into the water. My brother watching the geese. There were signs that showed what kinds of amphibians and beetles were in the water. This is one of them. If you look carefully, camouflaged in the sand (in the center of the picture) is a northwestern salamander. They also had signs that ...

     On the eighteenth of July, we went to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.  It erupted in 1980. The lava column shot up 15 miles into the air and rushed down the sides of the mountain. All the plants and animals around the volcano were wiped out.  After the eruption, life returned quickly.  Now, the area is filled with even more animals and plants than before the eruption. However, we didn't get to hike on the mountain itself, because it was closed for research. Mount St. Helens      Since we weren't able to go to Mount St. Helens, we went to Johnston Ridge Observatory.  There, we could see the mountain and also learn about it from movies, exhibits, or rangers. Johnston Ridge Observatory      At the visitor center, we watched two movies about the mountain.  They were each about 15-20 minutes long. After the movie, the curtain lifted up and through the window we saw the mountain: Mount ...

     On the nineteenth, we went berry picking at Columbia Farms.  Some friends we visited in Oregon told us that we should go berry picking and that it was fun, so we went.  There was no entrance fee, but if you wanted to bring berries home, you needed to pay (2.35 dollars a pound). Going berry picking.      There were four types of berries for us to pick: Boysen Berries, Marion Berries, Raspberries, and Black Berries. Sign at the entrance Boysen Berries Marion Berries      We didn't pick any Boysen/Marion Berries (except for my brother, but all the berries he brought back were so mushed that we couldn't tell the difference between the Boysen/Marion and Black Berries) because they didn't taste as good as the other berries. Raspberries (the sign says Cascade Delight).       The raspberries were about an inch long.  I picked a lot of them. Black Berries       ...