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Last fall, I caught a woolly bear caterpillar on a farm. I brought it home. I fed it grass. One day, I found out that they like dandilions. Monkey fed it a dandilion. A few days later, I found a cocoon. Five days later, it had hatched an Isabella Tiger Moth! We named it Izzy. Here are some pictures:

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The platypus is one of the most unusual animals of all! It is the only mammal that lays eggs. It is the only mammal that has a bill. It is the only mammal that has venom glands with poisonous rear heel spurs.

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In packs, all of the wolves work together to create a safe environment for their babies. All wolves of the pack help by babysitting the cubs. So if there is danger they protect the cubs. When the cubs are hungry, the pack feeds them.

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The Moon is a white cool diamond soaring
through the sky stopping only to cry
over her angels sad love

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On January 26, I went to the Hult Center to see Garth Fagan Dance, a modern dance company. Garth Fagan, the leader, was born in Jamaica and got started dancing when he toured Latin America with Ivy Baxter and the Jamaican national dance company. He also studied in New York City with Allen Ailey, Martha Graham and others. He is well-known for having choreographed The Lion King. Garth Fagan Dance is in its 37th season. They are known for core strength, Afro-Carribbean dance, and speed and precision.

From their website:
"The handsome, exotic, completely concentrated Fagan dancers move as if they were born speaking Fagan's language and they love the feel of it in their bodies," wrote Elizabeth Kendall in Vogue. "The dancers he has trained," said David Vaughan in Ballet Review, "are virtuosi, no doubt about it, and fearless too, able to sustain long adagio balances, to change direction in mid-air, to vary the dynamic of a turn, to stop on a dime."

I thought that the dancing was very good. I was impressed by their core strength, their tummy muscles were strong enough that they could do very fast turns without falling over. They were able to balance for a long time in arabesques, up on releve, almost upside down on one leg with the other leg up in the air.

My favorite piece was called "River Song." It was like a Native American dance. The music had lots of drums and singing, and the costumes looked like Native American costumes with feathers and headdresses. They were designed by Linda King, a member of the confederation Salish and Kootenai Tribe and is famous for beadwork and costume design. It was my favorite because I have always liked Native American music and dancing. They used rhythmic and energetic movements, hopping from foot to foot, bending up and down and turning around.

Another piece I liked was called "Discipline is Freedom." It began like the dancers were doing a class. They were stretching and balancing. My favorite part was when two lines of dancers crossed the stage in an X shape, weaving in and out of each other, doing fast chainee turns while moving their arms up and down so it looked all crazy and weird. Their arms were held out to the sides with their elbows bent, one pointing up and one pointing down. They switched them up and down while doing the turns at the same time.

I was inspired by Garth Fagan Dance because I like to do my own modern dancing. I could see how it was different from Ballet, which is actually a bit more graceful and romantic. Modern dance feels different in my body, I have to think about the movements I'm going to do differently. It feels like you can be more energetic and actually look like you're working hard, which is different from ballet where you have to look like you're not working at all. I like that about ballet, but it can be difficult to such hard stuff and try to make the audience think that it's effortless. Sometimes I feel that modern dance is easier, because it's OK to be athletic.

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I went to Ta Ra Rin with my mom, dad and monkey. I think it is a six star restaurant, yes my rating does go up to six stars.



Walking into the restaurant, a wave of good smells crashed over me. I felt very excited and hungry. When the staff saw kids walking in, they seemed friendly and happy that the kids like the restaurant. We were seated very quickly. They thought monkey was pretty silly, and brought her a special covered cup and a flower plate. I did feel a little jealous about that at first, but then I got to feeling a bit superior when they gave me a grown-ups' cup and plate, because I am older.

Here's a list of what we ordered: Golden Salad Rolls, Pad Thai with Shrimp and Lemongrass Curry Noodle, medium.

I like the Golden Salad Rolls and their sauce. They are crispy on the outside, but the vegetables still have color. They taste fresh and look fresh also. The sauce is sweet and spicy and very good. It's sort of like honey with some spicy stuff in it.

I think the Lemongrass Curry Noodle was very spicy, so I didn't have very much of that. Mom and Dad liked it. There were vegetables and some spicy coconut sauce. It came with some very excellent chicken, yum!

Pad Thai was not spicy at all. It's kind of sticky in a good way, and tastes salty and a little bit sweet. The shrimp were succulent, my favorite seafood.

Mom and Dad had Jasmine tea. Monkey and I tasted it, we thought it was good.

The sevice was prompt, the waitress was very cheerful. It seemed like she was having a good time at the restaurant.

Ta Ra Rin is a very good place to go with kids. The food is quite good, and the service is fast and friendly.

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This is a very funny Scratch that I made, I think it might be the funniest that I ever made. It's especially funny because the fish sings Opera, but you can hardly hear over the noise of the octopuses.

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The day seemed like it was going to start out and end like any other old day, but little did the villagers know that that day was the dragon's anniversary, and it had chosen that town to snack. Suddenly, something swooped down from the sky. It was humongous, scaly, the villagers were terrified.
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