A Week of Birds, Bloods and Crips.

The whole school spent a week studying birds. Just a general overview. All crammed into 1 week. The young Masters all went along with the program for the most part. They did their tasks. They did some research. They wrote 2 papers. We all went on a day long road trip to look for eagles. We saw 1. They were not impressed. They were more impressed with the open garage doors in a neighborhood in a small town. We stumbled through the neighborhood looking for a park where we could have our lunch. They were shocked and amazed that people would leave their garage doors open. It was a foreign land.

Back at school I noticed that K had developed a particular fascination with Cardinals. He said he admired the fact that they were territorial. And that they were red. He said he had watched one at his mother's bird feeder. He claimed that it had fought and chased off 2 larger Blue Jays. Claimed the feeder for his own. His bird project poster featured among other things Cardinals killing Blue Jays. I also noticed the same theme in the poster that R-1 and R-3 had created. A Cardinal had decapitated a Blue Jay. It was Bloods and Crips. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bloods. The Bloods were triumphant.