Butterflies abundant and all eight classes tomorrow! Monday!

Selected Topics worked on biochemistry and graphing data on Friday.  We went over carbohydrates in their everyday lives and will work on lipids and proteins tomorrow during our short class time.

AP tomorrow will review some details in biochemistry.  We will concentrate on DNA structure and common proteins.  We will also prep up the rest of the week which includes a lab quantifing stomata on milkweed leaves using microscopes.  Planarian lab will wrap up Friday.

We are checking the first four programs in Karel programming.  We will be working this week on the Grand Prix problem and going over example on how to use if-then and if-then-else statements.

Below are some picts from this weekend.  Obviously, swallowtail love in Holland!

There are still a lot of skippers flying around.  Below, a zabulon skipper.

I saw my 4th and 5th Monarchs this weekend ... a male below resting on one of our white butterfly plants.  I watch this one fly and glide around for about 15 minutes.  They are powerful fliers and strong gliders with their wings angled upward.  Many of the Tiger Swallowtail' wings are showing some wear and tear.  The Monarchs are perfect and seem to be stronger.  Something to check into!