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Last day to enter contest
Bright and early in the morning our Tiffi gets up and she is soooooooo excited that her friends are going to participate in the scarecrow contest with her. She makes some phone calls to find out what time they are planning to take their scarecrow to the center of town. They all give different times frames so she is not…
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Extra, extra read all about it!
Today is the judging day for these entries. The judges haven’t arrived yet but Tiffi is so excited. “OMG! We made it into the newspaper!” Tiffi thinks. “But we don’t have a winner yet.” The judges show up, @KimElston, @KingChewy and @mysticalmysty. Now the judging can begin. First we have the twins Jean-Luc and Philippe,…
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And the winners are!
“Why is it taking them so long to decide,” Chewy asks. “I think the judges made a decision because I see their heads nodding and they are walking back to us now.” Chewy gets soooooooooo nervous. Arthur walks over to his son and gives him a hug. They will find out soon enough. “This was not an easy decision,” says…
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Seasons come and seasons go – the story of the wolf
Tiffi wakes up one morning and looks out the window. It looks like the weather is beginning to change. The leaves on the trees have lost their green color and now have the most brilliant red, orange and yellow colors. Come to think of it, Tiffi hasn’t been paying much attention to the time of year. The days are starting to…
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Tiffi finds articles on autumn
Tiffi continues reading more about this. ‘Autumn and Fall - We typically think of 'fall' as the North American version of the word 'autumn', but it was in fact in widespread usage in England until relatively recently. Originally a shortening of the phrase fall of the leaf, the phrase was common in England in the 17th…
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Seasons explained
Tiffi find more information about the different seasons. ‘The cycle of seasons is caused by Earth's tilt on its axis and the planet's orbit around the sun. When the axis points toward the sun, that hemisphere experiences summer. The hemisphere tilted away from the sun experiences winter. After Earth travels a quarter of…
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The leaves are changing colors
She is just going to read a little bit more and then she needs to do something productive. ‘Why do leaves change color? - In response to chilly temperatures and the changes in daylight, leaves stop producing green-tinted chlorophyll, which allows them to capture sunlight and make energy. Because chlorophyll is sensitive to…
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Where are they?
Chewy makes a mad dash into the pile and falls in. Tiffi doesn’t see him surfacing or even hear him laughing. He loves his playtime so he should have giggled or something. It’s now her turn to jump and she hopes that she doesn’t land on top of him. Down, down, down she goes …………………….. and ends up somewhere else. “Hey…
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Tiffi and the wolf talk to each other
Chewy doesn’t know what to say. There are no verbal words coming from Tiffi’s mouth and yet the wolf is talking to her. But then he remembers reading online once about how wolves talk. ‘Gray wolves will look one another in the eye, as humans do, when communicating a greeting, dominance behaviors, and other social gestures.…
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Pecking order of wolves
Chewy looks at Tiffi with a look like “what’s a pack”? “Tiffi do you know what I’m talking about?” questions Tiffi. “Let me explain to you what a pack of wolves is all about.” ‘A wolf pack is an exceedingly complex social unit—an extended family of parents, offspring, siblings, aunts, uncles, and sometimes dispersers from…
