Whether it's rocks, leaves, sand, or snow, I know just where I want it to go. I play outdoors and I arrange all sorts of things that later I'll change. Why? Well, I like to be part of the outdoor...
Outside my door
I never used to think of things like rain, snow, trees, or flowers. They were just a part of the world outside my door. Now I go for a walk and I see things I never saw before. I see the shapes that...
Children play
> Children play in the snow. (Ai-ctic) I play with my family and my friends. I like to play guessing games and spelling- games. I also like to shout, run, jump, climb, dance, skate, and play...
GIANT BLANKET OF ICE
No sunbathing here! The shore is all ice. The giant blanket of ice that you see in the picture is the Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound in Alaska. "Glacier" comes from a French word that...
New Year’s Hats for the Statues
by Yoshiko Uchida Once a very kind old man and woman lived in a small house high in the hills of Japan. Although they were good people, they were very, very poor, for the old man made his living by...
The gift from the sea
Without the sea, there would be no life on the land. Snow, piled up on mountaintops, melts and trickles down mountainsides to become rivers. Rain and snow that fall to earth soak into the ground and...
Plants of mountainside communities
Why tree-line trees are short Every winter, snow covers the trees that grow near the tree line on mountains. The snow is about as deep one winter as the next. When a tree is young, snow covers it...
Sleeping life
It is the flowers' nighttime . . . In many parts of the world it is winter, and the ground lies cold and hard beneath snow and frost. The sleeping trees are brown and bare. The dry, dead stems of...
Animal houses
> Beaver Home > > An underwater tunnel leads into the house where beavers sleep and stay > warm. Where do the animals go when winter winds blow, when snow is in the air and on the ground? Where...
Icy daggers
It's a bitterly cold winter day. Snow lies in a great white sheet on the ground and on the roof of your house. The roof is warm from the heat inside the house, so the snow on the roof is slowly...
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