(a form change poem with thanks to Bobbi Katz for “What Shall I Pack in the Box Marked ‘Summer’?)

 

I’m putting the spring toads away,

And the warm breeze away,

And the colored butterflies away,

And the warm pool is getting put away,

And I’m putting the grass that’s so soft in the box.

I’m putting the smell of flowers away.

I’m going to put the seeing of the blue ocean away.

I’m putting the chirps of birds away.

I’m putting away the taste of warm tacos.

Now it’s time for WINTER!

*I really like art.

*I really like games.

*I really like family.

*I really like dinosaurs.

*I really like fish.

*I really like reptiles.

* I really like peppers.

* I really like sports.

* I really like pigs.

I hope to get a pet snake. I want a pet pig. I want to be a fisherman. I do want to be a paleontologist. I want to have a pet reptile. I want to look for real gold! I want to go to the Ark Encounter with Benjamin. I want to go to China. I want one whole week with only art and no gym.

A python’s backbone is made of 500 separate bones, and we have only 206 bones in our body! The tentacle snake is named after the pair of fleshy tentacles on either side of its mouth. These are not seen on any other type of snake. Garter snakes are found in North America. Many snakes have dull colors with brown, gray, and black skin. These colors blend in well with the ground. Tree snakes are often green so they can hide among the leaves. Every spring throughout North America, thousands of garter snakes emerge together from their underground winter shelters. Snakes prefer warm places because they are ectothermic animals. This means they take heat from their surroundings. Most snakes lay eggs.

To make a change to my bot, I asked, “Can I make my bot travel a long time without tipping over?”

 

The robot frustrated me because it kept falling over! Mine worked at first, but then it fell over.

 

One problem in my engineering was when it broke because the tape fell off.

 

I would like to try designing it with just one scribble leg and see what it would do.

So I was in the school house, and I saw an organ. It kind of looked like a piano, but it was an organ.

I asked the woman, “Can I play that?”

The woman said, “Sure!”

So I played the organ, but it didn’t work.

“Why didn’t it work?”

She said, “You have to pump the pedals on the bottom to make it work.”

So I pumped the pedals by pressing them down one by one back and forth with my feet. I played the keys, and it worked! It sounded really nice. There were these buttons that if you push them, the organ will change its sound.

It was fun to play the organ.