March on Washington

Zora: 50yrs. ago, there was a march on Washington. There was a march this year and I went. My brother came too. I saw my mom's friend. I saw a lot of other people. We went before the president spoke. It is important because Martin Luther King told his speech. Sorry about that I just got carried away. His speech is important all around.It was at the Lincoln  memorial. We parked the car and walked to the memorial.

Masai's piece:We went down to the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday, August 28th, but they wouldn't let us in! It was so crowded. Since we were so far away, we couldn't hear the speeches so we left to try to catch some of them at home. We got home in time to see Barack Obama speak. Zora thought Barack Obama's speech was great. I had fun for the short time we were there partly because I got to eat fried chicken and partly because it was a once in a life time experience.

Why do we itch?

We itch because the nerve endings in our skin send a signal to our brain as a defense mechanism against anything that might cause possible harm. For example, if I get some dust on my skin my nerve endings will send a signal to my brain telling it that I have an itch.  There are other ways to trigger the nerve endings response to the brain. Another way to get an itch are from allergies, disease, emotions and infections. 

Anaconda

 The green anaconda is the biggest snake in the world. The anaconda usually lives in South America. A lot of anacondas are green. Anacondas are constricting snakes. That means that they are not venomous snakes and kill there prey by squeezing them. Some anacondas have spots. Some of the places that anacondas live are Columbia, Venezuela, The Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago. Anacondas kill there prey by squeezing them until they run out of air and suffocate. The smaller species of anaconda the yellow anaconda lives in Brazil, Bolivia and some parts of Argentina.