Poems

sparkle
fancy pretty
gistening glowing glittering
gems are luster diamonds are radiant
twinkeling shimmering dazzling
dressy beautiful
bling

Monster
scary, ugly
creeping, scaring
spooking
scary things that
live under your
bed
Creature

Winter is Coming

     The old spider awoke to a chilly wind blowing on her back,"W-w-wint-t-ter is c-c-coming!", Wind told her in his eerie tone. Spider heard him and rose from her slumber.
   She stretched her legs, o-one, two-o, thre-ee, fo-our, fi-ive, six, se-even.........eight!"Ah,",she sighed, "now to work I go." She scurried to her web and waited for her first visitor.
    Dragonfly came SPLAT into her web. "Winter is coming, my dear. Don't be ashamed to fear, 'cause all of us do, when Winter is coming near." The Spider said as she began to untangle the little Dragonfly. "Gather your food so you won't starve, and a shelter in the world you'll carve. For Winter is coming near. As the trees shake and their limbs bend, 'Winter is coming!' Wind said. Now go tell all your friends, that Winter is coming near!"
   Dragonfly ,now untangled, flew away in laughter, "Silly Spider! Winter is not coming!" Spider ,shaking her head at the ignorance of the young Dragonfly, went back to her work of telling the passers by of Winter's coming. But they all said the same as the Dragonfly; "Silly Spider!"

     The next morning Spider awoke to Winter's cold breath on her back, "Winter!" she said in surprise, "Yes?" Winter sneered through icy fangs. "Well,", Spider began, her voice quivering, "what are you doing here!? Not even I am ready for your arrival!" 
   "The Wind told me you were having trouble telling your friends I'm coming. So I decided I'd leave a little message they'll have to believe. Do you agree?" Winter said, shoving his face into Spider's, and  smiling as warmly as his face allowed. "Why what a great idea!", said Spider,"You can leave it in my web!"
   So Winter wrote "Winter is coming near" with an icey claw, and left for another week. The insects saw his note and began storing food and building shelters, immedeately. And when Winter did come all the bugs were snug in their homes; including Spider.

WINTER IS HERE

Brown and Black Bears

How can you tell a Brown Bear's not black?

You'll look for a hump up on his back

The hump on his back helps him to dig deep

And so do his big paws on which he does creep

And how do you tell a Black Bear's not brown?

(Up in a tree he'll surely be found)

His short paws that help him climb the tree

Where he is stealing honey from a cranky honey bee

You can also tell if you look at his ear

Pointy and high they do better to hear

So that's how you tell Brown from Black Bear

But one last thing

ALWAYS BEWARE!

  These are all ways you can tell the two kinds,Black bears and Brown bears, apart. The Brown bear has small ears, a hump on it's back used for digging, and large paws used for catching slippery fish and also for digging. The Black bear has bigger ears than a Brown bear, a flat back, and small paws used for climbing. These differences can be useful because a Brown bear can have black fur and a Black bear can have lighter fur. And like I said always beware!

Moths and Butterflies

When my family and I went to St. Marten, we learned a lot about butterflies at the butterfly garden. At the butterfly garden we saw moths that only live 3 days but can stay in there cocoon for 6 or 7 years! All they do in their lives is mate then die. These moths are huge, also, their wings are as big as a grown mans hands! We also learned that certain sunscreens can attract butterflies. They'll actually try to suck it off your skin! Did you know that butterflies pollinate more plants than bees do? Moths and butterflies are pretty amazing insects.

The Legend of the Colombine

There once was a beautiful Phoebe Bird with shining feathers. The Indians loved her beautiful feathers and only had found one. Other birds hated her existence and her beauty. The Phoebe Bird tried to make friends with the other birds but for they thought all she would do is talk about how beautiful she was. So the Phoebe Bird was on her own. But she wasn't sad that she didn't make friends with the other birds because she had made friends with Fox, Rabbit, and Gopher. One day a sparrow while sitting in a tree over heard the Indians talking about the Phoebe Bird and how they wished to find another of the gleaming feathers. The sparrow flew home to his friends and told them what he had heard and his plan to be rid of the Phoebe Bird.

The sparrow, Owl, and Robbin all went back to the Indian camp all three birds came forward towards a man and a woman.  The sparrow told then that they could catch the Phoebe Bird and they could have the feathers they wanted.  It took two days and night for the woman, man and the rest of the tribe to decide what they would do.  The third day the hunters came the forest to try to catch the Phoebe bird but they couldn't.  So the warriors went out with the hunters.  This whole time the Phoebe Bird was hiding with her friends. 

"What should I do?" she asked her friends. 

Now fox was very wise and told her this, " Tonight you must go out and put three of your feathers down on the ground.  One by the Indians camp, one where the warriors sleep and the last one will go at the sparrow's home. "

That night the Phoebe bird went out and did what her friend told her to do, one feather at the Indian camp, one where the warriors slept, and the last at the sparrow's home.  The next morning the ground was covered with beautiful flowers that looked like the Phoebe Bird's  feathers.  the warriors went home and the sparrow apologized to the Phoebe bird for sending the Indians after her, and then everything was calm.

Christmas Cookie Recipe

1 & 1/2 cups of flour
1 & 1/4  cup of white sugar
2 slightly beaten eggs
1/2 c shortening
1 t vanilla
1 t baking soda
1t baking powder
1 t salt
1 & 1/2 cup butterscotch chips
1 & 1/2 cup pecans

First add 1 & 1/2 cup of flour to bowl.  Next measure 1 & 1/4 cup of white sugar and dump in the bowl.  Third crack two eggs into the bowl and lightly whisk.  Then put 1/2 cup of shortening into your bowl.  Now add 1 teaspoon of vanilla, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and 1 teaspoon salt to the bowl.  Last dump 1 & 1/2  cup of butterscotches and 1 & 1/2 cup of pecans in bowl.  Combine well, roll into small balls and bake on cookie sheets 9 to 11 minutes. 

Christmas Tree

Christmas tree you are so bright
please share your little light
for all of us in the dark cold night
Oh me Oh my what a pretty sight
with ornaments hung to and  fro
who ever hung them was a pro
you look however nicely
I'd think you were very pricely
with tinsel spun round you
and no ornaments touch the ground, too
I feel so safe and sound
with you around