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Click here to listen to Lisa talk with Laurie Zieber from Robin Falls Kids - Laurie & Company on the February 22, 2010 episode. The show is 30 minutes long and appropriate for all ages.
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Happy New Year! I’ll be posting most of my Arizona journal entries over the next several weeks, all in mostly random order, ’cause you know, random is one of my favorite words:
Today we went to the Kitt Peak observatory!
First we had to drive up Kitt Peak to get to the observatory. I could see little white domes from a while away. The observatory is named for the mountain, and I like that but it could get a bit confusing. Inside the gift shop there were Tohono O’odham baskets with very pretty designs. The observatory is actually on Tohono O’odham land.
There are 26 different telescopes being used at Kitt Peak. The largest here, the Mayall telescope, is 4 meters across! It’s one of the largest optical telescopes in the world! Kitt Peak also has the world’s largest solar telescope! I didn’t know there were so many of the largest telescopes in the world here. Aidan says that it’s freaky cool! I agree. Maybe sometime when we are back in Arizona and Aidan is old enough we can do one of the nighttime programs. I had fun at Kitt Peak and I think it would be fun to go to another observatory sometime.
Here are a couple of interesting links that show more about it.
http://www.noao.edu/kpno/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitt_Peak_National_Observatory
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/kptour/mcmath.html
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/kptour/mayall.html
Just in time to take to Grandma’s house this weekend: Flat Aidan and Flat Nadia are here!
Who and what are Flat Aidan and Flat Nadia? They are cut out paper dolls similar to Flat Stanley.
Get out your cardstock (plain paper would work fine, too, but it wouldn’t be as thick) and print your Flat Aidan and Flat Nadia. Color one, or both, cut them out, and take them with you on all your own adventures. Then! Send me a photograph (to flat at wright on time books dot com) of your Flat Aidan and/or Flat Nadia exploring the world with you. Please give me your child’s first name, age, and the location of where the photograph was taken. I’m hoping to see Flat Aidan and Flat Nadia in all 50 states and many additional countries during 2010. I’ll post the photos on this site for all to see, so only send me ones you would like posted! Let’s see how far Flat Aidan and Flat Nadia can travel!
Flat Aidan and Flat Nadia are illustrated by Tanja Bauerle.
