Lit. Wooden Bowls

Wooden Bowls is a story about a man whose son and daughter in law treat him badly and make him sit by himself at a small table for dinner, only allowed to use wooden bowls to eat since he broke a few plates. The son sees his son playing with wood scraps and asks him what he is doing, to which his son replied with "Oh, I'm making a little bowl for you and mama to eat your food from when I grow up." The son and daughter in law broke out in tears, realizing their mistake. They invited the grandpa back to the table. This relates to C.A.R.E.S because it shows examples of both self-control and empathy. It shows how the son and his wife should have controlled themselves when grandpa disrupted dinner with noisy eating and spilling mile. The son and wife also feel empathy towards grandpa, as they also feel sad and cry when their son says that he will do the same thing to them when they are older. The main idea behind this story is to respect your elders and treat them the way you want to be treated, now and when you are their age. It's also to remember that we will all reach that age if God allows us to, and that age doesn't mean you should be treated a different way than others.

Science- Heredity and traits

After taking the interactive tour here, or http://learn.genetics.utah.edu, the things I learned were very interesting to me. Two of the many things I learned were very appealing to me. One thing I learned while taking this tour is that humans have two complete sets of chromosones (26 each, 46 in total). People receive half of their chromosomes from their mother and the other half from their father during conception. When the two sets join during conception, they form into a zygote, a single cell made up of the two sets of chromosomes. The cell divides and a child is formed. Another thing I learned was that each person has either a straight thumb or a hitch hiker thumb. If a person has one or the other is determined by allele the person inherits from their parents, or set of genetic information. The straight thumb allele is shown by a capital H and the hitch hiker thumb is shown by a lower case h. If a person receives one H from one parent and one H from another, they will have a straight thumb, so two h's mean they will have a hitch hikers thumb. But if a person recieves one H and one h, they will have a straight thumb because the H is the dominate allele and the h is recessive. The H covers or "masks" the h. Out of all the fascinating things I learned from this tour, these two stood out the most. You can take this tour by clicking here, or scrolling back to the top.