How Fall Foliage Came to Be (A Vermont Legend)

One crisp morning in summer, Rabbit was screaming at the sun for no reason. After ten minutes, in a deep cave, dark and damp, filled with moss, grouchy Dragon was disturbed. He was naturally mad.

Dragon slithered out of his cave. He yelled, sounding like a grumpy grandpa, “Get off my lawn!”

He slithered back into his cave.

But Rabbit kept screaming!

The next thing, he saw Dragon, wings spread like Doritos, shake his nose and head straight for Rabbit.

Rabbit darted across a hill, but Dragon was fast and furious and didn’t quit. Rabbit skittered behind a bush, with Dragon a few feet behind.

Dragon searched the bush, his fiery breath leaving burned branches everywhere as he went.

Rabbit dashed for a pine, but Dragon torched the pine five feet before Rabbit reached it.

Rabbit had an idea. He hopped on a bush and skittered up a tree. Rabbit hopped to a hickory tree right after the previous tree was torched. This went on for ten minutes. Rabbit was tired, but Dragon was not.

When the other woodland creatures saw their friend in danger, they rushed to the nearest lake and started filling up water pails.

Squirrel stopped and said, “I don’t think we should use this magical stream.”

But Bear said, “Do it.”

Bear held off the Dragon while the other animals put out the flames with the magic water.  After the Dragon flew off, they helped Rabbit recover.

As soon as the magical water touched all the scorched places, they instantly turned all sorts of shades of red, gold, and yellow.

And every fall since then, the foliage turns magical colors in Vermont, all because of the battle between noisy Rabbit and the Dragon.

Outdoor Adventures

I explored downtown Keene with my mom and found this plaque about Mr. Blake who was captured by the Indians and taken to Canada in 1756. His wife paid the Indians a ransom, and he was returned in 1759. This is the site of their log cabin, where six generations of Blakes lived.

 

Working on putting some animals around a Lego outdoor adventure site.

Biography Puppet Presentation on Martin Luther King, Jr.

My name is Martin Luther King Jr. I am a very important to history. When I was little, my dad hated the racism in my town. When I was 6, I liked playing with my neighbors. One day I went to their house and knocked on the door. Their mom came out and said, ‘’ You can’t play with my kid because you are black .’’ I grew up healthy, but I was still teased because of my skin color.

When I was 16, I preached at my dad’s church. When I got older, the state had passed a lot of unfair laws, so I started a group called the Montgomery Improvement Association, or M.I.A. Some white men still hated me, so they blew up my house. None of my family was in it. Sadly, I got shot on a 2nd floor balcony and died. I was 39.

My Vacation

For vacation I played a lot of fun games with the Pedi kids.  I also read books and watched TV.  I played Legos, and I also hiked and went geocaching.  I also was staying at a hotel with my family.

Here we are hiking to a mountaintop on Easter morning at sunrise.

 

Here we set up the card table, had supper and watched our pastor’s sermon.

 

Earlier in the day on a walk in the woods behind our house, I found a garter snake.

 

Fractions in Real Life Math Project

David using 1/3 cup to measure 2/3 cup of tomato pizza sauce.

David using fractions to show finished product–pizza divided into 1/4 portions.

David helping measure sheetrock to make room to make stairs.

More construction fractions!