Anthony makes like a fish as Melina and Johanna present
2 black bears visit our college session. Where are they going?
In our Monday morning gathering, Daniel read to us this week’s Calendar of the Soul verse. Then everybody shared their weekends. After that Daniel and Raymond talked about last week’s weather and then John and Jeff talked about the stars. Then we sang a couple of St. Michael songs. In the afternoon two groups did eurythmy and the other group went for a walk.
In our Thursday morning College, we studied the bear. Ruth T. told us that black bears are very different from a grizzly bear. The grizzly bear has a hump on its spine. We learned that bears hibernate in the winter and wake up in the spring time. They eat up to 30,000 blue berries a day, and they also tree buds and salmon. Mother bears are very protective of her cubs from the time of birth until they are ready to go out on their own. The last thing we learned about the bears is that they are about six to eight feet tall. After Ruth’s presentation on the bears Johanna told us about the life of a salmon. She said that female salmon lay their eggs in a stream. The eggs hatch and the baby salmon is hidden in the gravel for a short time and then it swims in cold water. Salmon eat insects. When the baby grows up, he loses his pink color and becomes gray and grows scales and fins. When this happens the salmon leaves his home and swims in the ocean for four years and then he finds his way home. When he dies he may be eaten by a bear.
After a short break, we practiced our bell playing. In the afternoon we prepared for Halloween. On Friday afternoon, we did singing with Ashling.