My LA class and I read Squirm by Carl Hiaasen at the beginning of the year. We read and annotated every chapter. The annotations really helped me understand and follow along with the book better.
One of the themes that came up in the book was endangered animals. Our class researched and learned about endangered animals. Mine was an Amazon River dolphin. A fun fact about Amazon River dolphins is that they are among the most endangered species of the world’s Oceans!
Next we made a handmade book with an artist named Peg Gignoux. First we got to create our own paper with fun designs and patterns to put on our book. We cut out the pieces of paper and glued them. I made fun designs on mine. Since I was doing an undersea creature, I got to make seaweed. That was a change. I thought it was going to be easy, but the strands of it were either too big or too small. I eventually gave up on the idea, mainly because I only had one last class period to finish my handmade book and I still had a lot more to finish. Peg was really nice and helped me when I did not understand how to fold the book. Finally we wrote our stories on our endangered animal. We wrote it from the animals’ point of view, so it was like they were talking. It was a lot of fun getting to write about them, especially because I am an animal lover. As a class and independently, we revised our stories so they were ready for display, and now they are.
Go check out my story in the Gateway building!
Did you snow is actually transparent ice. It’s not white. However the snow we go here in North Carolina this week looks white given that it is so fluffy.
I had so much fun in the snow. I made snow angels, threw snow balls, and tried to make a snowman (but that didn’t work). The snow we got one- two weeks ago was more ice then fluffy snow. It was definitely more slippery but I still had fun in it.
What I want to talk about is a different kind of ice. Black ice. Black ice is not black but actually very clear. It is called black ice because it is a very thin, smooth, transparent layer of ice. Black ice is very dangerous because it blends in with the road or sidewalk.When you are walking you can barely see it. That is why it is dangerous.You can easily slip on it. It is extremely slippery!
It usually forms below freezing (32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius). If it is that temperature and there is moisture on the ground (from rain, melted snow, or fog). There will usually be black ice.
So, be careful out there but also have fun!
