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Welcome to Native American Art and Music! Our workshop leader was Mrs. Denise Plante-Renaud. Stephen Standing Owl and Nancy Turziano had unavoidable problems getting to RiverDay on the day, but they are on consultation for the wiki page. Mrs. Plante-Renaud helped us make medallions to be part of our own Native American regalia.



by Stinky Cheese**
 * How Ladybug Helped Make the Presidential Range: a New Hampshire Legend

One relaxing day, Ladybug was snoring on the flexible grass. That’s why his name was Lazy Ladybug. Then he heard a BANG, BOOM, CRASH, and SLAM! It terrified him.

He wondered if it was destroying his land. But it wasn’t. It was making his land more terrific. He just didn’t know it yet.

Later that day, Ladybug took in the rumbling in the world.

“Is it an earthquake?” he wondered.

Then he noticed a thunderous CRASH, BANG, and BOOM! He got even more terrified!

Something flew right over his head! BANG! He looked out. It was a rock. He scurried back under a luscious, plump leaf on a prickly, pointy bush to protect him from the rock meteor storm.

Ladybug crouched under the trembling leaf, clinging desperately to the edge of the leaf with his skinny, sticky, hairy legs.

“I’m going to die!” squealed Ladybug in a queer, awkward voice, trembling at every bang of boulders. Ladybug waited and waited. He peeked out after the last rock fell. BANG! It broke into millions of pieces. One fell nearby.

Then something different fell.

The thing that fell from the tree was Chocolate Chipmunk. Then Moose and Skunk scampered over because they had heard the big bang and chitter-chatter of the rocks as they had fallen and collapsed. Chipmunk, Moose, and Skunk were huddling together as if it had been a very long, cold snowy winter. That’s how scary it was!

When they were sure the last granite rock had fallen, they looked behind them and saw it! They saw huge mountains all around them in the distance, stacked up from the fallen rocks. It was amazing! The shape against the sunset sky was black bumps like pieces of coal. The clouds were white as fluffy snow. The mountains were even taller than Moose. That’s what impressed them most.

That is how the Presidential Range of New Hampshire came to be.

//**Stinky Cheese's Ladybug Research**// I used my research on the land of New Hampshire to use accurate New Hampshire geography details in my legend.

I discovered that ladybugs are red with black spots. They have a hard shell to protect themselves, with a small head, black antennae, and short, stubby legs. They are smaller than your thumb.

Ladybugs like to live in meadows, fields, woods, gardens, and even inside homes. They can crawl and fly. They eat bugs and plants.

Ladybugs have many predators, such as spiders, humans, ants, mice, and chipmunks.

Some other interesting ladybug facts I found are that ladybugs are 1/8 to 3/8 inches big. Scientists have found over 450 species of ladybugs.