Author: Betty Wu
Title: The Animal World
Do you know about the bear? If you don't know, I'd like to tell you some interesting facts. What do bears look like? The bear is about 5 feet tall and weighs around 375 pounds. It looks like a wolverine. Bears can be different colors---black, brown, white, blonde, bluish brown and cinnamon. Bears eat grass, berries, nuts and other plants. If there is not enough food, they will eat small animals and fish. They eat a lot during the fall so that they will have enough fat to live on during hibernation. Bears live in the heavily forested areas particularly in the hills and mountains and moist tropical forests. Bears live in caves called『dens.』
Bears have clubs mainly in January and February, right after hibernation. Twins are most common. Healthy cubs weigh less than one pound. For the first few months, the cubs are blind. When they first come out of the den they weigh 4-8 pounds. The mother teaches the cubs how to catch food, climb trees and how to go in and out of the den.
Are the bears endangered? Yes, because people cut the trees in the forests and destroy the bear´s habitat and since bears are not social animals, they run away and do not have a place to stay.
Facts:
1. Every year they go into a deep sleep called hibernation.
2. They will eat insects, rats, mice, caterpillars and even yellow jackets.
3. Bears are not big meat eaters.
4. The largest bear weighed over 800 pounds.
5. If you get attacked by a bear, the best thing to do is to lie down on the ground and pretend that you are dead.
Now, do you know more about the bear?
Author: David Yen
Title: The Animal World
The animal world is amazing because there are many animals that we don't know in the forests, so we need to see that amazing animals. Now we need to go to the zoo to find animals, not forest because it’s too far.
First, we see cheetahs. They are very fierce because they are carnivorous, so they want to eat meat. Second, we see gazelles. They are very cute, but some of the male gazelles are very fierce. Some other animals will bully gazelles’ baby. Third, we see flamingos. They always sleep by one foot because when other animals disturb them, they can fly away. Last, we see koalas. They spend most of the time sleeping because when they finish their food, they will sleep a long time, maybe a day.
The animal world is amazing, you can visit it. It will be very cool, very fun. Now this story need to be the end.
Author: Honey Lin
Title: The Animal World
In the animal world, my favorite animal is Panda
because they're cute and quiet. They're not like those animals that will bite people and other animals. The Panda's staple food is bamboo. They will not kill animals to eat them.
Before, we couldn't see Panda in Taiwan. So we need to go to China to see them. But now we can see them in the Taipei Zoo because China gave Taiwan two Pandas. Their names are Tuan-Tuan (boy) and Yuan-Yuan(girl). I hope one day I can see them.
When I read about the Giant Panda on the internet, they said it can climb a tree very fast. I thought that must be impossible because they are so big. They also said that Pandas are very shy.
For my birthday wishes, I hope I can get 2 Pandas to keep at home. But that is really impossible because there are only two Pandas in Taiwan now. And they are too big to keep at home.
Then, I hope that I can get a dog.
Author: Jason Yao
Title: The Animal World
In the Animal World, there are a lot of different kinds of animals.
Some animals are carnivorous, like lions and tigers. Some animals are nice because they are vegetarian, like pandas, fish, birds and butterflies. Lions and tigers are more dangerous because they will eat each other.
My like LIONS the best because they will eat other animals, I think that is cool. But in my opinion, PEOPLE are the King of the Animal World because people are omnivorous.
Author: Daniel Lee
Title: The Insect World
In the insect world, I like caterpillars the best because they are very cute.
What I also like very much is that one day the caterpillar becomes a butterfly. That is very beautiful and it always makes me happy because a butterfly's body has the colors of the rainbow.
It is also interesting that their feet are very short and look like branches or bird droppings. The way it moves is also very cute. Kind of like a turtle crawls…very, very slowly.
When I was young, my mother gave me a caterpillar to raise. At first, I was very scared of caterpillars. But my mother taught me how to take care of the them and then I was not scared any more.
I really love caterpillars, they are cute and cool. I like them the best.
Caterpillar, Caterpillar, Caterpillar….Cute, Cute, Cute
Author: Grace Lee 
