A Day Night as a Moth (Part 1) by Maren
Meeting Jane Goodall by Wyatt
In 2015, I met Jane Goodall. She may not remember me, but I sure remember her. Jane Goodall is best known for her work in Africa with the chimpanzees, but she also started the Roots And Shoots program in 1991.
The Roots and Shoots program is an environmental initiative that gives grants to students who are doing things like cleanups and planting trees and flowers. The organization also gives talks to schools to raise awareness of the problems in our world.
Green Mountain Area Homeschoolers was invited to participate in the dedication of “Boulder’s Gombe Grove,” at Horizons School in the fall of 2015. In addition to hearing Dr. Goodall speak and meeting her, we planted one of the ten ‘grove’ trees. Each tree was dedicated to one of Dr. Jane’s chimpanzees from her studies in Tanzania. Our group received the chimp ‘Mike’. Mike had a large interest in throwing trash cans and making a lot of noise.
The Pretty Big Pollinator Project is our seventh annual Roots and Shoots service learning adventure. It’s a great program and I feel very lucky to have met the woman who founded it.
A Bee Limerick by Jack and Josie
There once was a bee from the moon.
He came down to Earth much too soon.
It wasn’t yet spring,
The birds would not sing.
He started to buzz his own tune.
Hummingbird Hawk-Moth by Samuel
They are insects that look like birds so they don’t get eaten. They have a long proboscis (like a straw) that sucks nectar. Some have tongues longer than their bodies. They can fly 12 miles per hour. They help pollinate. Without them, we wouldn’t have many flowers.
Hummingbirds by Joseph
Hummingbirds hum around flowers and drink nectar from those flowers.
They balance on branches to drink the nectar, but only for a moment.
Usually, they are constantly flying around flowers.
They flap their wings 50-200 times a second.
Butterflies by Gabriel
Babies can’t fly
And have four weeks
Until they die
Goodbye
Oil on our hands can kill
Don’t touch!
But still
Butterflies are amazing
Bruce Wayne’s Garden by Wil
Bats are a good friend of Batman; the reason is because bats are cool, and they stay up late. They should also be our friends because they eat the mosquitoes we all hate.
They also pollinate Bruce Wayne’s garden. When the bats pollinate Bruce Wayne’s garden, his daisies flourish. If you are acquainted with Bruce Wayne, he will tell Batman to send some bats your way to pollinate your daisies too.