Grace

= =  = = = Strawberry Mayhem = = = = One day I was at my house; I decided to go for a walk. So I got my stuff together because I knew it was strawberry season .So I brought a container I could probably pick some at the park. I knew there was a whole plot of them there. Later as I was searching for the strawberry plot when I spotted a flower patch. There in the middle was a strawberry plant. “That was odd”, I thought. Someone must have planted it there. I looked more closely. It had one strawberry that was ready to be picked. I reached down and touched the strawberry. It was perfect. It was a deep red with little black seeds. It was squishy yet firm. But suddenly it started to grow. I immediately took my hand away. It was about ten feet around by the time it stopped growing. It crushed the whole flower garden. = = = = When people saw the strawberry they started to scream and run. Some were so confused they started to run straight for the strawberry. All the kids screamed and ran away. But that’s when it happened. Someone bumped into the strawberry. It started to roll. Then there was a loud “SNAP”. It had broken its stem. It crushed all the playground equipment. Good thing there were no kids. They had all left. = = = = The strawberry left a very wide imprint everywhere it went. Everywhere I looked it was complete chaos. As it rolled it went straight through a grocery store. Fruits and vegetables went flying through the air. A banana hit some guy’s head. But the strawberry didn’t stop there. By now the town was covered in strawberry juice. The roads were slick with it. But the strawberry just kept rolling. It ran into a bus parked on the side of the street. Good thing the bus didn’t tip over. It teetered and tottered on its last wheel, though. Finally the strawberry stopped. There was total silence. Complete silence. Everyone stood still. Then someone walked up to the strawberry. They pulled a piece off and started to eat. Soon enough everyone was eating. The strawberry was delicious. For the rest of the week I wondered where the plant had come from. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

 August 19th

Hi! My name is Emma I am a dragonfly. This summer was the best! We got to play in the water and pretend that we could fly that’s why it was so great. But this year is going to be even more fun. I finally get to live out of the water. I only get to live for a month after I come out of the water though. That’s what dragonflies do they only live for a month after they come out of the water. I’m also really excited because it’s almost the first day of school.

September 1st

I’m out of water now, it’s great. I finally get to breathe that fresh air and it is very refreshing. I’m a little nervous for school though. What if everyone can fly backwards except me, I can’t even fly. All I can do is hover.

September 3rd

I just love school its so much fun. I’m happy because no one else can fly either. We are learning how later in school. The lunch at school is great, We eat mosquitoes and gnats.

September 7th

I’m glad it’s a weekend it seems like forever since there has been a day without homework. I got to move my eyes in any direction I wanted to. We have 30,000 individual lenses and humans only have one individual lenses. Having so many eyes makes it easier for us to catch prey (mosquitoes and gnats).

September 9th

We learned a lot today in school and I mean a lot. But we got a break because we had a drill on what to do if a bird came. They’re our natural enemies. We also had an extra long recess so it wasn’t that bad of a day and we had no homework.

September 12th

Today we learned many different interesting facts about dragonflies. We learned that our wings flap 30 times per second, and we have two sets of wings, unlike many other bugs.

September 15th

Hooray! We learned how to fly today! Flying is so much better than hovering or at least that’s what I think. We also played tag in the air as practicing.

September 17th

I saw a picture of my brothers and sisters and me when we were babies. We were called Dragonfly nymphs. We lived in the water for about a year. I only remember a few months back though OF COURSE because I was still only in an egg. We are born as eggs dragonflies can lay up to 100,000 eggs. That’s a lot of eggs!

September 18th

Today in history class we played a lot of fun games while learning. We played outside so we could fly around (it was just a little break). While we played we learned facts. We learned that dragonflies have been around for 300 million years. That was very surprising.

September 19th

We finally finished the whole school year well in this case month. It was so great we had a party. We just learned one thing and that was that dragonflies are called different things all over the world. In China we are called old glassy. In England we are called water dippers. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

= = =**Mary** = = = =**I am gentle and kind** = = **I wonder why God chose me to give birth to the Messiah** = = **I hear the angel Gabriel announcing that** = =**I am the one** = = **I see the newborn Jesus in the manger** = = **I want to know how I can be with child when I am a virgin** = = **I am gentle and Kind** = = **I pretend that the manger is a cradle** = =**I feel very joyous** = =**I touch baby Jesus' soft face** = = **I worry if I will raise Jesus well I cry when I think of the annunciation** = = **I am gentle and kind** = =**I understand that I am giving birth to the Messiah** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **I say “I am the lords servant may it be to me as you have said”** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**I dream about when Gabriel was standing at the doorway** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **I try to take care of Jesus the best that I am able** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **I hope that no one talks about me because I am of child** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**I am gentle and kind** = = = = = = = = = = = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**The Three Wise Men** = = = = = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**We saw the bright star** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **One day very late at night** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **We fear for Jesus** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**We brought frankincense and myrrh** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **Jesus is the Messiah** = = = = = = = = = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Zachariah** = = = = = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**I remember when the angel came to me** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **I remember when I was burning incense** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **I remember when he told me my wife would have a son** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **And when I didn’t believe him I remember when he struck me so I couldn’t talk** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**I remember when he told me I should name my son John** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **I remember when he told me that my son would be the forerunner for the messiah** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **Even the day Mary came to our house** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **I remember when I got the news that the Messiah was born** = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> **But my favorite memory’s yet to come** = = = = = = = = = = = = =

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = == = = = = = = =<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">My New Pet = = = <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;">**My new pet is called a black tiguana. My pets name is Max. Max lives in tropical rain forests. He has the head of a tyra, which is good at cli mbing trees. He has the body of a cheetah, which** **is very good at running. It has the tail of a desert iguana, which is good at blending it with its surroundings anywhere. With the legs of a black lechwe which does not need to drink water in warm weather.** **All these features combined together make a pretty good black tiguana.

I found my pet in a tall tree. I was taking a hike in the forest one day (I live in South America so it was a tropical forest) when I heard a loud cry. It came from up in the trees so of course I looked up. To my surprise I didn’t see anything. So I looked there for a few minutes I kept hearing that cry and finally I saw it. It was an animal I had never seen before. It was stuck on a broken branch. I finally got the animal down and took it home with me.

My pet is not a very easy pet to take care of. Every day I feed my pet, give it a bath, and take it for a walk. My pet eats any kind of meat you can think of. It will drink anything. At first my neighbors did not like my pet very much. But after a while they got used to him. Some of them actually got to play games with him. They played games with him like fetch and tug-of-war. They started to like him.

The best thing my pet and I ever did together is go to the park and play games. We took a long walk down through the woods then we played games. We played games like Frisbee and fetch. We stayed at the park for hours. We had a great time. My pet is the best.**