Sheep

Inspired by reading the book "Mountain Born" for school.

Flowers, trees and clouds

Wizard of Oz

Addy reads to storytime kids

I read to storytime kids at the library. I read Puppies in the Snow. My storytime reader said she has that book and it's a really good one.

It goes up to 10 puppies, but Mama said maybe the storytime kids would get restless, but Miss Jane knew them a lot better than I did and she said just read 1 to 10.

The kids enjoyed the book. They counted with me. At the end, their mama dog was there to see them and she counted all the puppies to make sure all 10 were there, and we did the same.

When I was finished, they all clapped for me — the moms, the kids, grandmas, storytime teller.

Addy's turkey patch

This is my turkey design. This is for a contest. I had fun making it and I also hope I win because the winner gets $100.

If I win, they will make it into a real patch.


Note from Mom: Addy loves entering contests and I like that they give us a focus to learn something new in addition to our regular schoolwork. We read about this one in Farmers' Advance. The contest is to create the design for a Wild Turkey Management Cooperator patch. The DNR will give the patches to hunters who bring in a wild turkey for inspection in 2010.

Addy's patch is in the shape of a tom turkey, complete with beard. She added another turkey inside the design, at the bottom. Within that is a yellow turkey footprint.

Cutworm

I helped Daddy get enough cutworms to prove that cutworms are travelling into Michigan. I helped him prove it by giving him my cutworm moth out of my bug box. I went with him and looked for some more in the trap in a corn field.

Daddy gave me a cutworm moth to put in my bug box that I took to the fair, but I had to give it to him to prove that they're travelling into Michigan. He promised me that he'll get me one for next year.





Note from Mom: Addy said she felt proud of herself when she saw the results of her trips to check the trap with Bob published in the Pioneer ad, above bottom, in Michigan Farm News. Their trap is the one in the county at the tip of the Thumb (mustard color). Bob made the trap out of a milk jug, antifreeze and pheremone as an attractant. Addy sometimes went along this summer when Bob checked and emptied it. We sometimes wonder why schoolchildren are made to do meaningless, made-up projects when there is so much real and meaningful work in which they can participate. Not everyone has a father doing Extension research, but ...

Why I Want to Become a Farmer

by Addy, age 6

I want to be a farmer because my favorite part is going in the pens and helping my Uncle Duane to feed the calves. I also would like to be a farmer because I like nature and I think if I were a farmer I’d be around nature a lot.

I like to be a farmer, too, because you get to decide how much food your animals will eat and without getting too much or getting not enough.

I would like to be possibly a maple syrup farmer or a dairy farmer. My Grandma and Grandpa B. do maple syrup and my Grandma and Grandpa S. do dairy farming.

I have been practicing a lot. I am in 4-H and I also have some little corn plants by my turtle at home. I have been raising a bunny, which is really good practice, and I am going to move into the country and in the early spring help my B. grandparents with the maple syrup. I think when you’re making maple syrup it smells really good in the air.

I think that being a dairy farmer, the barn always smells good with manure. I have smelled when people are harvesting sugar beets, and I think it smells really good, but it doesn’t smell as good as fresh sugar beets. I’ve eaten a sugar beet before. They taste really good and crunchy.

I am going to go to Michigan State to be a farmer.

I would also like to be an astronaut. I think if there is any life at all up there, that I will be one of the first ones to discover it.

I am independent. Even though I am a girl, I would like to be a farmer.

Addy on the Horses Count web site

Thanks to Aunt Nini's work with the Horses Count in Michigan project, Addy's picture and short story are on this web site, also copied below:

http://www.horsescountinmichigan.com/YourHorseCounts/tabid/56/Default.aspx

"I don’t have my own horse, but I rode Sam for my sixth birthday. Horses are fun to ride and fun to look at and fun to pet. They’re good animals. I like all animals."

Butterflies

by Addy

A butterfly is like
a beauty-fly, a beauty-fly.

Oh butterfly, oh butterfly,
won’t you come and play with me?
Now go call all the butterflies you know;
call all monarchs, call all painted ladies,
call all swallowtails, call all leafwings.

And tell them to come play with me too.
I will not hurt you, don’t worry.

I would like to see how beautiful they are,
see all kinds.

I love butterflies.
I love all kinds of nature too.

The Ants in Pants Dance

by Addy

There once were these pants,
legs of ants,
feet of ants,
that always did the ants-in-pants dance.




Inspired by reading "Dancing Pants" by Shel Silverstein.