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HORSES
Horses are amazing animals that you should learn about! There are: breeds of horses, colors of horses, and the family of horses. To find out a little bit about them, read on!!!
Some of the common breeds of horses are: Paint, Appaloosa, quarter horse, Palomino, Belgian, and lastly the Przwalski horse. The Przwalski horse is the only surviving subspecies of horse that hasn’t been domesticated. When you get a horse, you should choose the "just right" breed. Some are big; some small. As you can see, the breed of horse makes every horse different from another.
Finally, the family of horses include zebras and donkeys, which are the main relatives of horses. The difference is that zebras always have stripes and live in herds. Donkeys are different than horses because they are smaller; they have an uneven mane and they have a tufted tail.
Horses are an amazing animal because of their breeds, their colors and their family. I hope you will learn more about this amazing species, now that you have learned a little bit about them!

GLOSSARY
Breed- a type of animal
Paint- a type of horse
Appaloosa- a type of horse
Quarter horse- a type of horse
Palomino- a color of horse and a type of horse
Belgian- a type of horse
Przwalski horse- the first type of horse
Sorrel- a color of horse
Mane- the hair on the horse’s neck
Herd- a group of animals
Species- a type of animal. Example: a dog is a species of animal.

Who you know as Laura Ingalls Wilder has more to her than being the author of the Little House series. She lived in many places until she died at ninety-two years of age, in the year 1959. At first, she lived in Pepin, Wisconsin, then Independence, Kansas, and after that: Walnut Grove, Minnesota; Burroak, Iowa; De Smet, South Dakota; Spring Valley, Minnesota; Westville, Flordia; Mansfield, Missouri; and Malone, New York. A few events that happened to her are: writing for the Missouri Ruralist; writing the Little House books; getting married; having a daughter, Rose; and having a little boy, Charles Frederick, who died at a year of age. I will always remember the little house author, for all the things she has done to help and entertain her community and readers, and I hope you will never forget her either.

Megan

From twelve years of age
My sister
Has grown up to be
Funny,
Crazy,
Happy,
Nice,
And creative.

It just so happens that
She hates
No reading time,
Showers,
And her annoying,
Part-alien
Part-comedian
Sister.

From what I know,
She loves
Her parents,
Her pets,
Her friends,
Books
And hot clam chowder.

From twelve years of age
My sister
Has grown up to be
My loving (sometimes)
Happy,
Cool,
Sister.

Dad

Part comedian
But all dad.

You’re talking about
My dad.

The one and only
Happy,
Nice,
Creative,
Cool,
Perfect architect in the world
That’s my dad.

Mom

My mom.
My nice,
Creative
Mom.

The one that hugs
The one that loves
My mom.

The View From Saturday

The view from Saturday is different for me
The view from Saturday is different for everyone you see!

The view for me is nice and happy
“But it’s a horrible day!” some people say.

But for me
You see,
I love Saturdays!
“Some peoples don’t though,” I say.

Andrea

From the four years that we’ve been together
My friend
Has grown up to be

Nice,
Respectful,
Happy,
Fun,
Creative,
And my B.F.F.

She hates
Her little sister,
Syrup,
And no reading time.

She loves
Her family,
Her friends,
Books,
Her dog,
And her dad’s special spaghetti and meatballs

From four years of being friends
Andres
Has turned out to be
My best, best friend.
Forever.

Dragons

I have a dragon,
A dragon named Moo
I have a dragon,
And so do you

A tiny dragon,
Always there.
A tiny dragon,
One to spare.

An invisible dragon,
Invisible to you
An invisible dragon,
His name Is Lue.

Paige

Paige is one
One best, best friend
Who’s always there:

Brilliant and happy,
Ready to share,

Her friendship and kindness,
Her number one self
Her best buddies too,
Which is one like myself.

Soccer

Soccer, soccer,
It’s what I do.

Soccer, soccer,
For me and for you.

A game at the park,
Or a competitive meet,
I’ll always be there,
With the ball at my feet.

More and More Math

Math at first, well, was like how I feel about it now. Sure, I can do harder problems and I have definitely improved, but it is really the same. It’s a little challenging, but I can still do it quite easily. The math has gotten harder, but I have gotten smarter. All in all, I’ve gotten better in math, and I feel good about it!

I think that good hygiene means to keep clean; bad hygiene is maybe to not keep clean. For example, good hygiene is brushing your teeth, showering, changing your clothes, and just being self conscious about your body and health. On the other hand, bad hygiene would be not brushing your teeth and hair, not showering and not being the best at taking care of your body and health in physical ways. I hope that people will have good hygiene, and keep clean. Bad hygiene is obviously bad, so don’t do it! All in all, be cool and keep clean!

I haven’t written on my blog in SUCH a long time! During Spring break, I went Hawaii! I went to Oahu, to be specific. I had SO much fun! They have really good shaved ice, and I even got to swim with a sea turtle! On the day we swam with a sea turtle, we were snorkeling, and saw lots of cool fish. Then, a guy suddenly said: “Hey! There’s a sea turtle over here!!!” We were so excited, because we have been wanting to swuim with one. We quickly swam over and I was so close to the turtle that I could touch it!

Also, we went to the Polynesian Cultural Center. I had the best time ever! We saw the seven different cultures of Polynesia and did lots of interactive things. The next day we went there, we did a Luau and saw an evening show of the cultures and it was awesome!

All in all, Hawaii was the best trip ever with lots of exciting events. Have you gone there? If you haven’t, you should soon!!!

If you were to ask me what signs of spring I see right now, this is what I would say: "Well, it isn’t very springy right now, with all the snow. The signs I do see are that daffodils and tulips are starting to bloom, I'm smelling fresh cut grass like a dog hears his name being called, and I am starting to see a lot more worms! Yuuuummy! What about you? What signs of spring do you see?

Time Twisters
By: Raspberry and Elephant Ears
Chapter 1
“Class,” said Mr. Green, “Please quiet down, there is big news,” everybody fell silent. “We are going to have a science fair,” everyone moaned, everyone except Katy Ganz that is. The reason for the moaning was that summer was near and they certainly were not in the mood to do any more major assignments. “This is your first year doing this assignment, so let me explain,” Mr. Green continued in an oddly stern voice. “You will present an explanation for your experiment on a poster board with your project below it. Your project is due two weeks from now, the 28th of May.”
By now Katy was about to BURST with excitement and when the school bell finally rang she ran home at top speed. If this was going to be a good project she needed to get started!
“Mom,” Katy yelled as she rushed into the kitchen. “There is going to be a science fair,”
“That’s exciting,” her mother replied weakly.   “What’s the matter mom,” Katy asked sweetly. Before Katy knew what was happening her mother burst into tears for no visible reason.
Then Katy realized that she did know what was happening. She had been avoiding the subject ever since her dad had been gone on a “business trip” to Tokyo. It was all coming back to her now though, the yelling; the tears; the fighting; Katy’s parents were getting divorced.
  Katy felt like it was her fault. She wanted to roll back time and stop them from fighting. Suddenly an idea came to Katy. Maybe she could turn back time, maybe she could make a time machine as her science fair project and then maybe just maybe, could she stop her parents divorce!

Chapter 2
The next morning, Katy woke up bright and early. She had work to do! She pulled on some jeans and an orange T-shirt. As she hurried out to the garage, she gulped down some cereal. While she ate, Katy looked around the garage. Exactly how was she going to build this thing? All she could see was some tools on her dad’s workbench, now deserted, a whole bunch of boxes (metal and cardboard), the metal from her broken dishwasher, and her mom’s blue Volvo. That was it, that’s all she had. Suddenly something came to her. With her moms’ permission, Katy could use all this to make her time machine! The good thing was that she would clean out the garage doing it. The bad thing was that her parents couldn’t know about the time machine. All of a sudden something interrupted her thoughts. Someone had opened the garage door. It was her mom.
“What are you doing?” she asked. As if the episode of last night hadn’t occurred.  “Um… working on my science fair project.” She replied uncertainly.  “What is it going to be,” Her mother asked, still acting as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened the night before. “I’m making a time machine,” Katy answered slowly, not sure why her mom was acting so happy. As you may know there is a time and
a place for everything, and if your child has found out the night before that you are divorcing her father, then that is not the time.
“Um…. Mom?”   “Yeah?’’   “Can I use some of the things in the garage to make my time machine?”   “Sure” Said Katy’s mom.   “Thanks” Said Katy, “But why were you coming out here?”   I was just going to tell you to start on your science fair experiment, but I see you’re already doing it, so I’ll let you be.”
Katy was amazed that her mother, normally the one to ask too many questions, hadn’t asked any about her project!   Katy decided she had better get started on her project if she was going to turn it in on time. She started looking around the room for objects to us in her time machine.
When it was time for dinner, the time machine turned out as an abnormal triangle with patches of cloth, metal, paper, and cardboard.
After dinner she would try it out, not that she expected it to work but she had to try!  “Time for dinner!” Her mother’s voice called out. Katy left the garage with high hopes and a hungry stomach.  
After her favorite dinner of juicy steak sirloin, garlic bread filled with butter, a mouth-watering chunk of chocolate cake, along with some milk to wash it all down, Katy decided to try the time machine out. She probably shouldn’t have tried it out on a full stomach but her anxiousness was getting the better of her! She snuck into the garage. Katy hopped into the time machine and dialed four numbers, the numbers were: 4999. When she pressed enter, the machine shook and vibrated. This caused Katy to role over and hurl. Her stomach just couldn’t take it. Before Katy had any time to recover, a flash of bright blue light blinded her. It was at that moment that she vanished, her screams echoing in the garage.

Chapter 3
When Katy awoke, she noticed that she was in some sort of a small portable house. Where am I? Katy wondered.   Then two thoughts came to her; one was that she was covered in puke, which was the more disgusting thought. But the second thought was that she was in the future. Not the past! How was she going to stop her parent’s divorce now? The divorce had all ready happened! But one thing lit a little light in her heart. If she found the time machine, she could go back to the past and stop her parent’s divorce! There was only one little problem: the time machine was nowhere in sight!
Katy searched everywhere and finally, she saw a tiny abnormal triangle down below. Then, Katy realized that she was in a hovercraft, so she was in the air, hovering!
On top of being afraid of heights, Katy had no idea what so ever how to get down! Lucky for Katy, she was a great inventor and knew that in a situation like this, you would have to make a grappling hook, however, thinking of the grappling hook wasn’t her luck because anyone could think of making a grappling hook but not everybody could make grappling hook! To make a grappling hook she knew she would need string and a grapple, so she started looking.
The first object she looked for was string because if she couldn’t find the grapple part she could always just use a rope. She found rope easily because there were little straps of hemp everywhere, which she tied together to make a rope. For the grapple she carefully ripped off a couple of little metal scraps from decorated sides of the hovercraft. When she had found all of the required utensils, she started building.
About an hour later, Katy was done with the grappling hook. She had made the grapple out of little pieces of bent metal, so it wasn’t the best she could do but she was in a hurry and it was worth a shot, anyways. She tried the first time and missed by about ten feet. “I guess I’m not that good at aiming,” Katy mumbled hopelessly. She knew feeling sorry for her self wasn’t going to help anything, so she kept on trying.
On the fifth try, it must have been magic, because Katy caught the time machine smack dab in the middle!

Chapter 4
Katy carefully hoisted herself onto the rope. She shut her eyes tightly and started climbing down. Down, down, down. As soon as she felt the rough texture of the time machine below her bare feet, Katy opened her eyes. She lay exhausted on the floor of the time machine, glad to be on the ground again.
This time Katy carefully typed in 2006. Everything happened as it had before, the zap of blinding blue light, the shaking and vibrating, and worst of all, the puking. But this time Katy wasn’t scared. In fact, she was far from it- she was excited!
When she awoke, she found herself in her house. Then, the weirdest thing happened. She saw herself. Not in a mirror, no, it was a double of her! Only Katy’s double was looking strait through her, as if she wasn’t there. “Errr... Hello?’’ Katy asked in an awed tone, amazed at what she was seeing. Nobody answered. Then Katy realized that it was as if she wasn’t there; nobody could see her, touch her, or hear her! So, with satisfaction that nobody knew she was there, Katy walked down the hall to carry out her plan.
She would trick her double into reading the message that she wrote. The message would say:  
Dear Katy,
Please make your parents get along. If you don’t something bad will happen to your whole family.  
-Anonymous  
As her plan carried on, Katy grinned broadly; her plan was going to work!  After Katy had tacked the note onto a bulletin board in her room, she got in to the time machine and dialed the present. It happened just like the two times before, but Katy was too tired to notice; she was going home!

Chapter 5
Katy opened her eyes…again. This time there were 2 out of the ordinary things. One was that her mom was still showering! The other strange thing was that she was zipping around the house at full speed. Finally, she came to a halt when something hard rammed into her stomach. Katy was lucky she didn’t throw up because she was still a little woozy from that time machine. But she wasn’t going to throw up until she had seen what or whom she had rammed into. When she was sure that she had fully recovered she looked up and saw that she had rammed into herself! It was different than last time- she was actually there. You couldn’t see through her, you couldn’t walk through her, and you could hear her!
She had bumped into herself and now she was herself! But something was wrong- her dad was missing! Had she done all this for nothing or had he still not come home from his ‘business trip to Tokyo’? Katy needed some time to think so she ran to her room and thought, just sitting they’re thinking about her adventure. Suddenly her mom came into her room. Before she could say anything though Katy burst into a fit of tears.
“Oh what’s wrong, honey?” her mother asked sweetly.
“Are you kidding?!” Katy screamed. “ I can not believe you don’t know why I’m crying and your getting divorced from dad!”
“Honey, I would never do that! I love your father very much. Plus, I think you have a little fever. How about you take a calming nap before dinner?”
“ I am fine! Just let me talk to dad!   “ But he is sleeping, he’s very tired from his work trip to Tokyo and I think you are to, so get some rest and I will wake you up for dinner, you can speak with dad then.”
“ O.k.” She replied in the middle of a yawn. She was too tired to argue so she laid her head down on a pillow and rested.
  After dinner, Katy turned on the T.V. As Planet Earth started, Katy’s dad came into the room “Dad=http://!!! You never got divorced! My plan worked! My replica read the note!”
“What plan? What replica? I don’t believe you ever told me about a plan. Katy, your mother was right. You do seem sick! What are you talking about?”
“Oh, never mind!” Katy replied.

By: Jim Hall

All my pwoblems who knows,
maybe evwybody's pwoblems is due to da fact,
due to da awful twuth dat I am
SPIDERMAN.
I know, I know.
All da dumb jokes:
No flies on you, ha ha,
and da ones about what do I do wit all doze extwa legs in bed.
Well, dat's funny yeah. But you twy being
SPIDERMAN for a month or two.
Go ahead.
You get doze cwazy calls fwom da Gubbener
askin you to twap some booglar
who's only twying to wip off color TV sets.
Now, what do I cawre about TV sets?
But I pull on da suit, da stinkin suit,
wit da sucker cups on da fingers,
and get my wopes and wittle bundle of equipment
and den I go flying like cwazy
acwoss da town fwom woof top to woof top.
Till der he is.
Some poor dumb color TV slob
and I fall on him and we westle a widdle
until I get him all woped.
So big deal. You tink when you
SPIDERMAN
der's sometin big going to happen to you.
Well, I tell you what.
It don't happen dat way.
Nuttin happens.
Gubbener calls, I go.
Bwing him to powice,
Gubbener calls again,
like dat over and over.
I tink I twy sometin diffunt.
I tink I twy sometin excitin like wacing cawrs.
Sometin to make my heart beat at a difwent wate.
But den you just can't quit being sometin like
SPIDERMAN.
You SPIDERMAN for life.
Fowever.
I can't even buin my suit.
It won't buin.
It's fwame wesistent.
So maybe dat's youwr pwoblem too, who knows.
Maybe dat's da whole pwoblem wif evwytin.
Nobody can buin der suits, dey all fwame wesistent.
Who knows?

By: Shell Silverstien

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

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