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9.14.25 · Children's Hour

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to real As Children's Story Hour. As
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a reminder, REALI is a reading service intended for people
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who are blinder of other disabilities that make it difficult
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to read printing material. Today we will be reading from
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various books on fall or autumn. Your reader today is Diane.
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We will begin with the book When Fall Comes, Connecting
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with Nature.
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Speaker 2: As the days grow shorter.
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Speaker 1: It was published by Little Bigfoot and imprint of Sasquash Books.
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It has a copyright year of twenty twenty three and
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the author is Amy M.
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Speaker 2: Bezon.
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Speaker 1: It When Fall Comes, and great gaggles of Canada geese
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honk and flap overhead, and the aspen leaves change from
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green to gold. Chilly air and shorter days remind us
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it's time to get busy. Change is coming and there
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is so much to do, not just for us, but
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for the animals too. In the fall, everyone is on
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the move. Summer crowds are gone from the trails. The
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mudflats are filled with feeding shore birds, some on their
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way south and some flying in for the winter. Silver
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red salmon fight their way up rushing streams, returning to
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the places they were born. In the fall, we forage
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we search for the woods for mushrooms after it rains,
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rashie math tusock.
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Speaker 2: And collie flower.
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Speaker 1: Our woodland friends stock up on favorite foods to chipmunks
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stashed seas and underground burrows. Red squirrels gather pine cones.
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Busy beavers dive deep, dragging woody branches to underwater piles
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near their lodges. In the fall, we get our house
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ready for cold weather. We put away patio furniture and
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stack wood near the back door for nights when the
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wind whistles. Birds and animals ready their homes too. Badgers
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dig now dens, chickadees lined tree hollows with soft moss
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and rabbit fur. Lumbering black bears search for fallen trees
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whose upturned roots from perfect bear sized spots to sleep
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away the winter. In the fall, we trade our flip
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flops for thick socks and boots. We pull on sweatshirts
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and jackets, and stashed gloves in our pockets, just in
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case our woodland friends change their outwear too. Roughed grouse
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grow an extra set of downy feathers. The fur on
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long tailed weasels and jack rabbits turns white white tailed
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deer grow darker coats to blend in with the leafless trees.
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When fall comes, we hit the trail on sunny days
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to hike among bright yellow larches. We splash in puddles
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filled by heavy fall rains, and we listen for fall sounds,
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elk boogling and hill on hillsides, squirrels rummaging for acorns
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and the crunchy fallen leaves. We collect driftwood on the
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beach and breathe in the salty air. Out in the
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deep sea, we know gray wells are swimming south to
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warmer waters. Even they are on the move, even they
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know change is coming. We smile because it is time
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to get ready. There is much to do, not just
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for us, but for the animals too when fall comes.
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Our next story is titled Busy Animals Learning about Animals
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in Autumn. It was published by Picture Window Books, a
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Capstone in print. It has a copyright year of twenty
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eleven and the author is Lisa Bullards.
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Speaker 2: It's chilly today, Zip up, Laura.
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Speaker 1: Summer's warm days have gone the aerschool Autumn has come.
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During fall, animals get ready for winter's coat. Rabbits and
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deer grow thicker fur. See the rabbit's coat. It looks
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as warm as mine. Animals such as frogs, eat a
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lot in thalt. The extra food adds body fat. Animals
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live off the fat during winter. That's when meals are
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made hard to find. Frogs like munching on juicy bugs yuck.
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Tree squirrels gather nuts and acorns. Then they bury or
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hide the food for winter. With a squirrel Squirrels find
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the egcorns later, not all of them. Some egcorns will
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grow into oak trees. Honey bees head for their hives
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on cool days. The bees gather close together to stay warm.
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The hive has honey in it, right, Yes, the bees
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will eat honey during winter. Beavers build lodges in the water.
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They use branches and mud to make their homes. They
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use those big teeth like saws. Yes, and they store
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branches underwater for winter snicks. Many birds migrate in fall.
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They fly to warm places where there is plenty of food.
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We'll see the birds again next spring. I wish I
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could fly to a warmer place for winter. Many other
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animals migrate too. Monarch butterflies travel up to three thousand miles.
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Where do the butterflies go warm places like Mexico and California.
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Some animals look for places to hibernate. Snapping turtles will
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bury themselves in mud beneath water. Snapping turtles have strong
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jaws that one doesn't look very happy. During fall, animals
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are busy getting ready for winter. Let's head home. It's
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getting cold and dark, and the animals have lots to do.
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Our next story is titled Animals in Fall and it
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was published by Pebble Plus by cap Stone Press, has
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a copyright year of two thousand and eight and the
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author is Martha eh Rusted.
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Speaker 2: Fall is here. It's fall.
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Speaker 1: Animals start to get ready for cooler weather. What animals
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do Gee, snow winter is coming. They fly south together.
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Monarch butter fly south too. They find warm places to stay.
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Snowshoe hairs change color. Their first starts to turn from
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brown to white. Deer growth thicker coats. Thick fur keeps
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them warm in the cold. Getting ready. Squirrels get ready
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for winter too. They hie nuts to eat later. Honey
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Bees make extra honey they store it in their hives.
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Bears eat extra food. They look for dens to rest
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a new season. The animals are ready for winter. The
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new season will begin soon. Our story is toggled We
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harvest apples in fall, and it was published by Cherry
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Lake Publishing. Has a copyright year of twenty thirteen and
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the author of our book is Rebecca Felix. Fall arrives
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fall us here weather cools, leaves turn colors. Apple trees
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change in fall the apples they grow change. Apples start
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as blossoms, they bloom in summer they become fruit. Apples
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are in the same plant family as roses. By fall,
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apples are ripe. They are ready to harvest. To harvest
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apples is to pick them. Workers pick many apples. Paul
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visits apple orchards in fall. He picks apples too. Apples
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are used to make many foods. Apple ciders made from
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pressed apples. In buyes apples to take home. She makes
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apple pie. What do you need to make apple pie?
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Snowfall apple harvest is a special time. What seasons comes next.
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Speaker 2: Our next book is.
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Speaker 1: Titled Signs of Autumn and it was published by ABDOH Publishing,
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a division of ABDO. It has a copyright year of
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nineteen seventy nine and it was written by Colleen Dawson. Seasons.
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There are four seasons during the year. They are called spring, summer, autumn,
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and winter. The weather, plants, animals, and daylight hours change
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during each season. Autumn. During the year, Earth travels around
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the Sun. This brings some parts of Earth closer to
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the Sun. Other parts of the Earth get farther from
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the Sun. Autumn happens in the parts that are moving
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farther from the Sun.
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Speaker 2: Did you know?
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Speaker 1: In the United States it is autumn and September. In
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Chili it is autumn. In March, it starts to get cold.
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In autumn there are more clouds in the sky. Jordan
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and Sydney where their new yellow hats to stay warm.
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There is less stay light in autumn. The sun sets
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earlier each day. Sarah flies her kite until it gets
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too dark outside. During autumn, the leaves on the trees
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change color, then they fall to the ground. Did you
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know Autumn is also called fall. Apples are ready to
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be eaten in autumn. Ashley helps pick some at an
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apple orchard. Her family goes there every year. Geese, stucks,
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and many other birds fly south in the autumn. They
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spend the winter in warmer places. This is called migrating
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Did you know fly bock of geese fly in a
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V shape in the autumn. Squirrels collect nuts. They save
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them to eat in the winter. It is harder for
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them to find food in the winter. Did you know
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autumn comes after summer and before winter. In autumn, Tristan
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likes to play in the crisp, crunchy leaves. What do
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you do in the autumn? Autumn activities? Carbon pumpkin, go camping,
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play in the leaves, go on a hay ride. Autumn quiz.
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Listen to each sentence and decide if it's true or false.
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The weather changes during each season true or false. There
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is less daylight in the autumn true or false. Leaves
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stay the same color in autumn true or false. Geese
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fly north for the winter. True or false. Squirrels collect
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nuts in the autumn. True or false. Our next book
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is called Trees and Fault and it was published by
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The Child's World. It has a copyright year of twenty
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seventeen and the author of our story is Jenna Lee Gleisner.
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Winter is coming.
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Speaker 2: It is fall.
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Speaker 1: Leaves cover the ground, They crunch under our feet. Fall
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is chili plants get ready for winter. Falling leaves leaves
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change color. Someturn yellow, others turn orange or red. Many
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trees drop their leaves. This helps trees keep water during winter.
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Soon all of the leaves fall. The trees are bare.
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We raak the leaves into piles. We like to play
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in them. Some trees do not lose their leaves, ever
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greenstay green all year long. Tree homes. Trees are homes
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for animal animals get ready for winter. Two squirrels bring
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nuts into trees. They live in trees during winter. Our
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next book is titled Awesome Autumn All Kinds of Fall,
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Facts and Fun. It was published by Henry Holt and Company,
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an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group. It has a copyright
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year of twenty twelve and the author is Bruce Goldstone.
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Autumn is a season of awesome changes. Look around in
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autumn and you'll see a lot of changes happening. These
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changes take plants, animals, and people from the hot days
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of summer to the cold days of winter. Days get colder,
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so your clothes get heavier. At the beginning of autumn,
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you might be comfortable running around in a t shirt
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and shorts. By the end of autumn, you're more likely
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to be wearing a sweater, long pants, and a jacket.
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Days get shorter and nights get longer. Autumn begins on
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the autamental equinox in the northern hemisphere. That's the day
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near September twenty second, when day and night are both
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twelve hours long. Autumn ends on the winter solstice in
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the northern hemisphere. That's a day near December twenty second.
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It's the shortest day of the year. Leaves change color.
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Why do leaves change To understand the answer, you need
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to know why. Leaves are green in spring and summer.
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Their green color and a leaf comes from chlorophyll. Unlike you,
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plants make their own food, and they use chlorophyll to
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do it. This green chemical traps energy from sunlight. Plants
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use the energy to grow. Summer days are long and bright,
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so leaves have plenty of light to make food, and
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autumn days get shorter. Many plants stop making food when
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daylight decreases. As days get short, leaves stop producing chlorophyll.
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The trees don't need it anymore. When the chlorophyll is gone,
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we can see new colors in the leaves. Those are
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the colors of autumn. Another name for autumn is fall
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But how do leaves know when it's time to fall?
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Some trees have leaves that can't survive in winter. Their
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branches and trunks are strong enough to live through the
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coat short days ahead, but their thin green leaves are
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too delicate and would die in the coat. That's why
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these trees drop them. Leaves have veins that carry fluids
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in and out of the leaf. As autumn days get shorter,
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the veins begin to close off. Fluids stop moving.
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Speaker 2: In and out.
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Speaker 1: A layer forms at the base of each leaf where
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it hangs on the tree. Finally, this layer completely steals
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off the leaf from the tree. When the leaf is
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no longer connected to the living part of the tree,
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it can fall. Trees that drop their leaves in a
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off the are called deciduous trees. What happens to all
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those leaves? Leaves that fall can help keep the environment healthy.
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As they break down, they give food to the earth
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into tiny living things in the soil. Fallen leaves also
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act as sponges. They mix with the soil to help
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it holds rain water. What trees did these leaves come from? Beech, ash, birch, elm, chestnut, dogwood,
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gin co, hickory, horn, bean, linden, oaks, maples, tulip trees, sweetgums,
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willow sassafrass, which has three different leaf shapes found on
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the same tree. What else falls to the ground well, acorns,
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maple seeds, horse chestnuts, osage, oranges, plain tree nuts, Chinese lanterns,
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pine cones, honey, locusts.
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Speaker 2: Seed pods.
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Speaker 1: How does autumn fell fluffy, bumpy, smooth, icy, slimy, spiky, slippery, crispy, soft, hard, warm.
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Not every thing changes in autumn. Evergreen stay ever green.
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Evergreens are tough enough to stay green all winter. Their
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needles or leaves are covered with the heavy wax that
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helps them survive in the winter. This wax keeps the
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moisture in and ever green from freezing. Pine spruce, hemlock, holly,
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fur seed, or all evergreens. Autumn brings frost. How does
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frost form? Frost is frozen dew, but what's dew? Air
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looks invisible, but it isn't empty. Air always has some
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moisture in it. The air close to the ground gets
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moisture from soil and plants. During cool nights, the moisture
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in the air also cools. Moisture becomes droplet's on plants,
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the ground, and even spiderwebs. These drops are due in autumn.
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Nighttime temperatures can drop below the freezing point. Moisture in
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the air freezes into ice crystals. That's frost, and it
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can mean trouble for plants. When the temperature is cold
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enough to form frost, water inside the plant freezes to
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As a result, the plant may die before the frost comes.
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It's time to harvest crops. Farmers use everything from their
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hands to mighty machines. Some crops are best harvested by
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hand to make sure they don't get bruised. Other crops
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are best harvested by machine. A combine is used to
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harvest grains like wheat.
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Speaker 2: Barley, rye, and corn.
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Speaker 1: The name comes from the fact that it combines three
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different drops, cutting, threshing, and cleaning. First, the machine pushes
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stocks of grain into the correct position and cuts them. Next,
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a conveyor carries the grain into threshing drum. That's where
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the chaff, the outer part of the grain that can't
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be eaten, is removed. Finally, the grain is cleaned and
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then transferred to a truck that carries it to be milled.
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How does autumn taste? Lots of crops are ripe and
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ready to eat in the fall, Apples, pumpkins, pears, plums,
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and more. A cornucopia is a horn of plenty. It's
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filled with fruits, nuts, and vegetables that you can taste
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in the autumn. What shape is autumn? Look for shapes
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in autumn? What is round? What shape are like a
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triangle or an eye? How does autumn sound?
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Speaker 2: Boom?
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Speaker 1: Scary, spooky nights, munching, tasty fall trees, hawk, geese on
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the go, crinkle, leaves under your feet, wind in trees, hooray,
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fans said? Football game, shack, combine, cutting, wheat, hiss, black
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Halloween cat gobble, Thanksgiving turkey. In autumn, some birds leave town.
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Many birds migrate. They fly south to spend the winter
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where it is warmer and food is more plentiful. You
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might see geese or other birds flying in a vee.
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This pattern saves energy. The bird in front works the
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hardest cutting through the air's resistance. The air behind the
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front bird has a little less resistance, so it's easier
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to fly through. Birds take turns flying in front. Here
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are some birds that migrate, swans, duck, goose, pelican egret
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Arctic urn. The tiny Arctic tern has the longest migration
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of any animal. Every year, this four ounce bird flies
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more than forty four thousand miles from Greenland to Antarctica
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and back again. Migrating isn't just for birds. Ocean waters
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get colder in the autumn. Dolphins and whales also migrate
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falling warmer water currents. Some insects migrate too. Monarch, butterflies, grasshoppers,
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and some dragonflies travel hundreds or even thousands of miles
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to reach their winter homes. Some animals don't migrate south,
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they migrate down. Mountain Goats, big horned sheep, and elk
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that live high in the mountains during the summer move
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down to lower, warmer lands in the autumn. Some animals
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don't move in on them. Instead, they stop moving. Many
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animals become much less active in the late fall. Chipmunks, hedgehogs, bats, frogs, toads,
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and even earthworms hibernate. They seem to be sleeping for
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a very very long time. Their body temperature and heartbeat decrease.
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They live off fat storage in their body. Bears spend
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the cold season in caves, hollow trees or dense They
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can sleep for as long as a month, but they
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can also wake up if they are threatened. Before they
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go to sleep, bears prepare their sleeping areas by lighting
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them with dried leaves and grasses. These materials help to
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keep out the code. Animals who stay awake in the
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winter use autumn days to get ready for the code.
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Many animals stay where they are all year round. In
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the autumn, they gather food while it is plentiful. Squirrels, beavers,
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and other mammals store food for the winter. Some mammals,
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like foxes, grow thicker fur in the autumn. This helps
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them stay warm as temperature drop. Other animals, like the
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snowshoe hair in the hermite, even change colors. Their fur
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changes from brown to white to blend in better with
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the winter snow. What do people do in the autumn?
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They rag leaves into a pile, then jump play soccer.
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In football, people still play baseball in the autumn. Two
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the World Series in spaceball season in October. What will
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you you be on Halloween? Halloween comes every October thirty
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first begin as a holiday to bridge the light part
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of the year and the dark part. People wore masks
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and costumes to scarewat spirits from the dark world. Today,
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many kids were costumes to go trick or treating. Some
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costumes are scary, others are silly. When you put on
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a costume, you get to pretend you are someone or
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something else.
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Speaker 2: For a little while.
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Speaker 1: What food will you share on Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving start as
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a harvest festival. Families gather together to show they are
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thankful for the food of the growing season. Thanksgiving traditions
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go back to sixteen twenty one. The pilgrims of the
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Plymouth Colony wanted to celebrate their first successful harvest in
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a new country. Then when Pawnag, an Eastern Native American tribe, joined,
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the fifthctivities, which lasted three days. People in the United
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States celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November, and
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Canada Thanksgiving comes on the second in October. Some foods
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that are eaten or green beans stuffing the compie cranberry sauce, gravy, sweetcorn, turkey,
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brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, yems, and pumpkin pie. Finally, the
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last change of autumn arrives. Awesome autumn turns into wonderful winter.
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Soon the cool of fall turns into the cold of winter.
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Tree branches are bare. A blanket of fresh snow might
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cover the leaves on the ground. What other changes will
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winter bring? Our next story is titled Mike Simo Go
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Apple Picking, and it was published by Simon's Spotlight and
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Imprint of Simon and Schuster's Children Publishing Division. It has
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the copyright year of two thousand and seven to twenty twenty.
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The author's Patricia Lakin Mike Simo were best friends. They
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lived in a school in the art room, in a
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cozy cage. The big one sped them corn. No more corn,
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they said, Mix scratched his chin. How can we tell them?
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Most scratched is yours? I won't make signs new food,
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new food, they shouted, but nothing happened. The big ones
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were gone. Moe read their sign. We went apple picking.
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Get ready for apple sauce for us? They said, I
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cannot wait, said Mix. Let's go, said mo. They climbed up,
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They slid down, apples they sniffed. Not here, said Mix,
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Here said Mo.
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Speaker 2: Ay.
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Speaker 1: They watched apples got cut, apples got cooked, an apple
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bits dropped. I cannot wait, Mix ran out. Oh no, cried,
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Mo safe, They sighed. When the big ones left, they
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got busy, mix licked apple sauce. Yum, mo picked apple
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bits yum. We are apple picking, they said. They took
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a knife. They each grabbed an inn. Up and down
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they went split, slip, splash, lift flip. We made an
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apple print. More and more they cheered. Now cut across,
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said mo, look a star. They sang more and more
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and more done, said mo. They held up their sign.
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Apple picking is fun. One to make apple prints, here's
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what you need. One a grown ups help, two apples, three,
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a plastic knife, four, poster paint, five paper, a paper
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plate or a sheet of newspaper. Here's how cut dip press,
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and then you have it. What to make apple sauce.
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Here's what you need. One a grown up's help. Two
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apples about four pounds, three a plastic knife, four one
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third cup of water, five, a pot and stove. Six
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a food masher or blender. Here's how wash cut pores.
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Sir mash yum. This concludes our children's story out for today.
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Please join us next time as we will read more stories,
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fables and fairy tales. Thank you for listening, and please
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