Caterpillar Facts

    Did you know that I just found a live caterpillar-just cruising around my house? I named it Katie. Did you know that caterpillars have pinchers for eating? When they are threatened, they curl up in a ball. Their favorite food are lilly leaves. Well, Katie was munching on a carrot instead! They curl up in a ball when they want to sleep. The kind that I found was green, had two rows of spots on its back, had no antennae, had stubby feet like a V, and was blind! Now how could Katie sense or see where she is going? Well she uses the other three senses, touch, smell, and taste. Maybe she has eyes, but they are black, so I can't see them. Maybe they were camouflaged. I'll release her next week, and she will become a beautiful butterfly! Or a moth. Here is a picture of Katie.

Index

pinchers: small jaws on animals, used for eating, or pinching

threatened: scared or hurt

antennae: two small hairlike feelers on the head

camouflaged: disguised in the same color as surroundings

Garage Swamp

    My name is Shreyas. I live in a small house in San Jose. It was a sunny day today. My dad had said that our garage is creepy. He told me to never go inside.  I'll get lost. Well, my dad asked me to fill water in the empty bottles in the car. I got the keys. And as usual my brother followed me. I unlocked the car and got the bottles, but... my brother accidentally turned on the car. We blasted through the garage and into a creepy swamp. I started to drive slower and slower. This was the perfect speed: 5 mph. I turned on the radio. The radio said,"The swamp has lots of animals. Some were not discovered." 

    "Where are we?" My brother said timidly. I said,"We are in a swamp." We got out of the car. We wandered in the trees. We came to a river. I found some logs floating around. I found out that they were                  
not logs. "CROCODILE FISH HEADS!" I screamed and we ran out. Soon my brother got tired, so I picked him up and ran. We rested under a leafy tree. Then I saw a lizard as big as a football field. So again we ran. Too bad I  couldn't play football on it. While we were running I stepped on an ant as big as a baseball. I thought it was disgusting so we went somewhere else to wash my shoes.

We came to the same river. I looked out for those crocodile thingy. But something surprised me. Barracudas!! "We are toast" I groaned, looking at my brother. For the 3rd time we ran, at full speed to go to the car crying for help. On the way a parrot as tall as the Eifel Tower said,"need help?" But we ignored. We found the car and drove home. Well, to my room then.