Math 8

Nija Box-Sphere
Good afternoon, today I would like to tell you about a bug called Nija Box-Sphere. You will now get to learn a little about Nija.

Well first off, Nija is a pirate-ninja. Her only enemies that can defeat her are squirrels. She is practiced in the ancient art of sword-fighting and hand-to-hand combat. She has a special power that enables her to carry a sword even though she is tiny. Nija’s wings are made of a material that is fireproof and bulletproof. She usually flies at about 250 miles an hour, but that’s just on slow days. And I thought you should know that she is the last of her kind, squirrels killed them all.

Now onto her shape, she has a spherical head that allows her to see her enemies coming at her from every direction. Her rectangular body acts as a source of protection to the following: cold, heat, bullets, swords, and bug-spray. She has tiny legs and so they don’t interfere with her flying. Her wings are very powerful and are shaped with ridges so that she can catch wind currents and fly faster and higher. She cannot run at all or swim because has such short legs.

Nija lives in the Bermuda Triangle. She lives in a palm tree, in a little nest thing made of pine straw and coconuts. Her diet consists of mainly chocolate, pecans, pickles, and orange juice, but she sometimes eats spinach.

Well, I will now tell you about Nija’s personality. She is very sweet unless you challenge her to a sword fight then you will lose. She loves a good book, but since she has short arms and legs, she can’t hold them up very good. She loves to laugh, and she laughs a lot, especially when someone or something thinks they can beat her in a sword-fight or in hand-to-hand combat.

That is all I got to observe about her until she had to fly off and fight a pirate-ninja human that thought he could beat her in a sword fight. I hope you have learned something interesting today. Please pass on her legacy to others and let her legend live on, because I caught her and now she is currently in my math classroom.

One Direction- The Cylinder Parasite Bug

BAM! One day, God created me- One Direction: The Cylinder Parasite Bug. Hello everyone my name is One Direction!(: I’m a Cylinder Parasite bug from Gatlinburg, Tennessee. I live in a small bug village in the Great Smokey Mountains. In the village, all the different kinds of bugs and I only eat a special kind of stew we make. We all move in different kinds of ways. Some of us fly, walk, crawl, or inch on our stomachs; I personally like to walk on all fours. When my type of species of bugs was made, we were made out of these things: a soda can, pipe cleaners, soda can tops, and google eyes. The soda can is used as our bodies, the pipe cleaners are used as our legs, and antennas, the soda can tops are our feet, and last but certainly not least, the google eyes are of course our eyes. All of the bugs made like us HATE rain, since we are made out of painted soda cans, we can’t get wet cause if we do, our paint will come off. When it comes to predators trying to make a snack out of us, we have a secret weapon, we can spit acid out into their eyes to blind them. We are thankful that God made us the way He made us- as a Cylinder Parasite Bug. Well I’ve told you my story and about my life so I guess I’ll be going now so bye!

And that’s the story of One Direction- The Cylinder Parasite Bug.

The End.

Matthew (no story)

Geoids

It’s not always easy being a geometry bug. As a matter of fact, it’s hard. But at least my geometry bug helps human existence. Geoid is an interesting bug because it eats garbage. He is made up of cylinders and spheres. Even though he faces some challenges, he is still thorough in his job in nature.

Geoid was given his shapes for many special reasons. He has a cylindrical body so that our garbage can circulate easily. This feature also allows him to be quicker. He also has big eyes to see trash far away. This also helps to ward off predators. His antennas help him to smell the wonderful smell of your trash. His tail helps him to pick up trash. He uses his legs to crawl up trashcans and dumpsters.

Geoids are rare and usually only found around landfills. Geoids migrate from city to city, which takes about 1 year (they travel 10,000 miles at a time). Geoids never have a permanent settlement. They migrate all the time. For this reason you probably have never heard of them. You might wonder how Geoids reproduce. The answer is… they don’t. Trash people release new ones every 10-15 years. The average lifespan of a Geoid is 100 years. They live so long because they have no natural predators.

I know it sounds like Geoids have a blast, but they have a tough life. Their cylindrical bodies cause them to have trouble balancing. They also don’t have wings so they can’t fly from place to place.

I hope you enjoyed the life of a Geoid.

Graham (no story)

The Adventures of Cylinder Sam

One day there was a family, who lived in a small house in a mining town. The father was named Danny, the mother was named Debby, and their son was named Derek. Danny owned a small diamond mine. After collecting carts full of diamonds, he sold them to jewelry stores. One day when Danny was in the mine, he discovered a bug that had a green head, a blue fluffy body, and a yellow stinger. Danny took a closer look and discovered that the bug was stuck in a hole! Danny asked, “How did you get stuck in that hole?” The bug replied, “ My Antenna sensed diamonds nearby and so I went in to investigate.” “What is your name?” asked Danny. The bug replied, “ My name is Cylinder Sam, what is your name?” “ My name is Danny and I’ll try to help you out!” Cylinder Sam sat still as Danny pulled him out. “Thank you so much!” said Cylinder Sam. Danny replied No problem, I’ll take you back to my house.” Cylinder Sam replied “okay.” So Danny and Cylinder Sam worked and worked until 5:00, then they decided to go home. When they got to the house, Debby already had their supper ready. Danny asked Cylinder Sam what he would like to eat. Cylinder Sam replied, “ I would like pizza, it is my favorite!” So Danny ordered Cylinder Sam a small pizza, and he ate the whole thing. Danny got him a cardboard box to sleep in.

The next day, Tuesday, was delivery day. One of their customers, Eric, who owned a jewelry store planned to meet them. He was very crafty and decided to rob them because he owed money to the IRS. As they were approaching a stop sign, they noticed someone had broken down and they saw Eric had captured Debby and was holding her hostage! He demanded that they hand over the diamonds or he would hurt Debby. As they thought about what to do, Cylinder Sam charged at Eric with his stinger. Eric quickly started his car and they chased him. Eric took a sharp turn to the left Derek followed and Cylinder Sam was right behind them. Eric made a sharp U-turn, but spun out as Cylinder Sam hovered over him. Cylinder Sam noticed Eric was trying to get away so, he stung Eric in the hand and he had an allergic reaction and his hand swelled up. Derek called the police and untied Debby. Cylinder Sam was rewarded with all the pizza he could eat! Cylinder Sam’s shapes are a sphere, cylinder, and a cone. Cylinder Sam has geometric challenges because he cant fit in tight places.

The life of Styrosphere

My geometric bugs name is Styrosphere, which is a stink bug found in Africa because of its warm climate. My bugs bodies made of a Styrofoam sphere, angular straws for legs and oval made of cardboard. Its stinger is a cone. The spherical shape makes it hard to catch and eat because its not long and skinny like a worm. The short angular legs make it slow so it can’t run fast from its predator. Its predators are mainly birds with big mouths. It lives in tall grassy areas to protect itself .if it caught by a bird it had a stinger like thing that sprays out a smell that birds don’t like. If it is dropped by a bird its sphere like shape helps it to roll when it hits the ground so it can hide quickly To catch its prey it spits acid out of its mouth to paralyze its prey then sucks its insides out

One day while walking slowly through the grassy plains of Africa Styrospere got hungry. He saw a chigger and came up behind it, spit acid on it then sucked its insides out. After eating his meal, a bird swooped down from behind him and caught him in its mouth. Styrosphere sprayed his odor into the air. The bird did not like this and spit him out He hit the ground and rolled to safety in the high grass. The question is “Will he get away next time.

“A Day in the Life of My Geometry Bug”

Spherey the ant lives in garden with very bright colors. All the plants in the garden were very bright, even the insects. She was looking for some food one day and she couldn’t figure out what she eats. So she went to her parents and asked them “What do you eat?” and they said “We eat: candy, chocolate, and anything covered in chocolate.” She decided to go find some of these foods, so she tried to fit under the fence o0f the garden and she couldn’t fit. The problem was she had one different shape that was bigger than the others. She had two spheres, and a cone shaped body. She couldn’t fit because the cone shaped part would not fit through the space. She decided to go ask her parents what she should do. They said, “You should go to the side of the fence not the front.” So she got through and went to look for some food. She came up on a fly and they started talking. The fly asked, “Why are you on the ground and not flying”. The ant said, “I can’t fly.” The fly was surprised then the fly asked, “Why is your body shaped so funny”? Then the ant explained, “Well, the things on my head are used for like sensors, the middle part of my body is used for holding the rest of my body parts together, and the back part of me is where everything I need to done my body is done.” Then the fly said, “Well where are you headed?” the ant said, “I’m looking for some food”. The fly said, “Well go down the road about a mile and then make a right at the light then make another right at the nest stop sign and then go about thirty feet then s you should be at the park where you can find some food”. The ant said, “Well where should I go to go look for some food?” The fly said, “You need to go to the picnic area duh!” The ant said, “Well ok but I don’t think I will find any food there”. The fly said well go to the picnic area and go to the tree and you should find a caterpillar there and he will tell you what to do”. The ant did that and he found the caterpillar and he said well do you see that family over there go and take there food while they are gone”. The ant did just that and then thanked the caterpillar and left. She went home and told her parent about the adventure she had and who she met and she enjoyed her chocolate.

And that is a day in the life of my geometry bug!

Well, a day in my world

Me well I’m a bug. A bug that is very colorful and well colorful. First, my name is Cindy Trap Cylinder the Cyclops. I have one eye that is right in the middle of my head, which is circular, and colorful wings that are speckled with glitter. The glitter is for making my predators blind, for a moment, so I can get away, but that can serve a problem to. What I do is at least try and fight off predators from my family and the flowers and field s of our home.

One day when I was a t camp we were flying around on night watch (to look out for predators) and we saw something moving in the tree and we of coarse went over to investigate and got a surprise. What we saw was a huge thing it was like a monster so we tried to kill it. This is where my glitter got me in trouble. While my friend and I were fighting it I tried to get behind it and kill it that way. But then it had to see me because I didn’t know it had eyes in the back of its head. You know like your mom does of teachers especially. But any way I also didn’t know that it had four arms this is when my eye and antenna come into play my eye can see things in the dark even better than in the daylight and my antenna they can send radio messages or they can turn into electric bombs/arrows/swords. But he problem was he kept seeing me because I had glitter on me and I kept on sparkling. Well I used these things to defeat this thing with four arms and four eyes. My friend and I were not hurt at all. Accept for being shook-up pretty bad because of the shock of being attacked. 

My Bug “ Bently”

I’m going to talk about a little bug named Bently that is octagon shaped, and meets a friend, Arnold, and they see how long their strong friendship lasts, or does it end!

The reason I called my bug Bently, is well, it’s a cool name, and the other reason is that his body is octagon shaped, and he crawls around everyday, and all- day long until: 6 am to 10 pm at night. Bently, goes every morning until night to find food. Bently, is a very lonely creature because his mom and dad left him when he was 4 years old, and no- one likes him at all to be their friend because he is octagon shaped. Bently lives in tree holes, or underground. Bently eats little crawling animals like: ants. One day, Bently was walking through the woods looking for food, and found a little bug, named Arnold. Arnold, was a little ant, that no- one liked him either, or to be his friend. So, then they started talking for a while, and they had everything in common like: rolling down the hill, eating ice cream, swimming through the pond. One day, they met out to go to McDonalds to eat lunch, they both got a Happy Meal, and they each got a little super hero toy. While, they were almost done eating, Arnold, started to get hungry for a ice cream at Dairy Queen. So, they went , and they both got a chocolate dipped vanilla cone. Then, after Arnold was done eating, and Bently was still hungry for dessert, and Arnold was asking why? Then Bently said, cause I waned to eat you for last, because you were a little ant, which I eat everyday. Then, Finally, Bently lived Happily Ever After by himself forever eating ants.

I talked about a strong relationship that ended, and, but they did enjoy it, but it was never enough!

The Life of a Geometry Bug

My bug’s name is sally cylinder, and she lives in Arizona on a farm, and her house was in a tree. Her parents raised her until she was 10 years old, and she has 2 sisters and 1 brother, and after they were all long enough, then, her parents went to Texas. The only thing they told her was that she was supposed to eat fireflies because in Arizona fireflies are dangerous to people so their job as a cylinder bug was important. Then later she found out that she could change colors to match any surrounding to protect herself from other animals that might eat her because she is small.

Her body looks like a cylinder and she cannot see very well so she has antenna to help her sense food and other things better. She can also fly and crawl but she can fly really fast. Her face is looks like a sphere, and her legs look like little cylinders and her feet are round but her feet are very light so that she can fly faster and easier. Then one day she went out to catch some fireflies like her parents had told her and the sun was really round and bright, and there was none there so she went to every pond around where she lived and she found some, and then she found out that she has super fast powers so then she went home and told her brothers and sisters and so then they had races to see who was the fastest. But they she found out later that she could run and fly so fast because there was a super ball thing inside of her that looked like a sphere and that was what made her run so fast. So her life was sort of complicated for the first years, that her parents left her and her brothers and sisters alone and she was nervous because her job was so important she didn’t want to mess up and but it got better and they began to have fun with chasing their food and being a bug.

Geometry

Chasinagon

My bug is known as the Chasinagon. ‘Inagon’ meaning twenty because of its twenty legs. Its legs are used for propelling through water because it’s a water bug. It lives off of algae, using its small cylinder tube for a mouth to suck the algae in while filtering everything else. Chasinagon is rectangular in shape. Its feet are not for walking so it has triangular helicopter like wings to move it from place to place. He lives inside logs and other areas near water. Although it has big eyes it can not see anything but the movement of light and shadows so it has antennas with millions of small hairs to detect movement in order to keep form being eaten by prey. 

  The male Chasinagon’s exoskeleton is shiny which attracts its mate. Once it finds a mate it loses its shiny exoskeleton. The larvae stays in a cocoon for 2 months while developing to a full grown Chasinagon. 

The Chasinagon is very rare and scientist have only found them near the Gippsland lakes in Victoria, Australia. 

“The life of Mosquitosphere”

The name of my bug is Mosquitosphere. He has many different geometrical shapes in his body.  He will now tell you what he uses, his shapes, and how they all work together.  


Hello my friends my name is Mr. Mosquitosphere, I live in the tropical rainforest of Africa. Streams are my favorite place to stay the water is usually calm and does not disturb me. I have special feet to glide upon to water, they are very tiny spheres with little hairs all over them. This helps distributes my weight so I can move very fast and get away from things trying to eat me. I can also fly using my triangular shaped wings. This helps me get to my prey so I can eat their blood. Blood is a delicacy for the Mosquito. I have to use my cylinder shaped mouth to put into your arms to suck all of your blood. My wife Mrs. Mosquitoesphere need both blood and nectar she uses her cylinder shaped mouth to suck the nectar from plants. Hosts may be difficult to find so I have to take as much blood possible at a time. I have a sphere chamber to hold blood as a reserve when people are scarce. I am not liked by humans much because I can cause many types of diseases for them. The most common one is malaria. My geometrical challenge is climbing trees because my feet are a spherical shaped. Another challenge I deal with is the type of food I eat, it can only be in liquid form since I have a cylinder shaped mouth.

The Caterpillarworm

The Caterpillarworm can survive in any part of the eastern United States, the only disadvantage he has is that he cannot climb. The type of foods he eats is grass and harmful insects. The Caterpillarworm is diurnal which means he is active both at night and during the day but mainly during the day. When he goes into a state of sleep he buries himself under the ground and can survive without food for up to 3 days at a time.                         


The only predators it has are birds and certain species of spiders. Unlike the caterpillar it does not go under metamorphosis and unlike a worm it does not decompose wastes to enrich the soil of farms. It is a omnivore and does not like to be messed with. The only way you can ride your home of such a creature is to bring in its main predator, which is extremely hard to find and has not been named by scientists.                                 


The Caterpillarworm is a new species that arose after scientists breed caterpillars and worms together hoping to create a bug that could transform into a butterfly and still enrich the soil so farmers can grow crops much easier without watering the soil or adding any type of fertilizer. The Caterpillarworm can also breed with either caterpillars or worms and has spread rapidly since scientists were unable to capture the creature since it moves slowly, but it can use its surroundings to protect itself.


This creature has actually become helpful to farmers because they eat the insects that would damage there crops which would in turn help with both controlling how many crops get destroyed and help the Caterpillarworm become famous, and known has a helpful bug and not a harmful one.

Arachnida Octovrisdae-The Eight-Sided Scorpion Spider

The Eight-Sided Scorpion Spider is from a very unique family of arachnids, being asymmetrical and also having incredible luck. The chelicerae on the spider are both different. Usually the right side of the fangs have a hooked shape and typically the left side has a crescent shaped fang. The abdomen, thorax, and head all have an octagonal based shape. The legs of this lucky bug are made of elongated spheres. On its back is a strange pattern of a sun.

Usually, these spiders inhabit islands that always strangely attract treasure-seekers that often bury their treasure on these islands and there is always a stray map or two. There’s even a legend that if you see an eight-sided scorpion spider, it must mean that treasure is nearby. These islands usually have lots of cliffs. In the cliffs is where they make their homes, but researches often call these abodes “hives.” Oftentimes, these spiders are said to have an affinity for red. If you were to visit the hive of one of them, you would most likely find small red items that the spider has found around its environment. 

These spiders can form incredibly strong silk threads for their webs, but their true skill is in their stratagems to lure their prey right into their plans. But these spiders also have their weaknesses – like the fact that they are blind in seven of their eight eyes. There is also a civil war with the spiders. The terelibae, more commonly known at the Red Glare spiders, are always feuding with the octagonal spiders. 

THE ZEBRA BUG

My bug is called a zebra bug. It has three body parts made out of spheres. Its antennas are cylinders with spheres on top of them and feathers coming out of the spheres. Its wings are flattened semi-spheres. Its eyes are spheres and it has a place on its bum that is a cone. Its mouth is a pinwheel type thing and its legs are cylindrical. I used the geometrical shapes that I did because I wanted to make my bug special and only these shapes will work for this bug.

The Zebra Bug lives in a magical forest where everything is zebra print so that it blends in with everything and is not as easily detected as some of the other magical creatures that live there.  My bug moves very slowly when it is walking, but when it flies it is as fast as the speed of light, which makes it hard to catch. The Zebra Bug eats rainbows but it only rains once a month in the magical forest so the Zebra Bug has a very slow metabolism and has fat pockets that its body uses to store extra bits of fat for the bug if it burns its fat off to keep it alive. These bugs do not reproduce. Whenever their population gets low then another bug just poofs into the air and bam, there is another Zebra Bug. These bugs run in packs. They all stick together because they would not survive on their own. These bugs depend on each other to watch their backs when it is feeding time and nap time.

The Zebra Bug has defense mechanisms to help it survive. On the lower left side of its wing, it has an eyeball and on the top right side it has sparkles. If a predator sneaks up on this bug, it either flaps its wings to shine light in the predators eye or it stays still to make it look like its watching the thing that’s trying to eat it. This bug also has a pointy thing so in case the sparkles or the eye do not work. If the bug gets attacked from the front, then it shoots sparkles out of its feathers into the predator’s eyes and darts off.

Because of this bugs shape, it makes it really hard to fit into certain places such as small spaces or skinny spaces, but the bug cant stay in a big space because it will be attacked. This bug faces many challenges in finding a place to live.

Polly, the Painter’s Pollinator Bug

Hi, my name is Polly and my job is to pollinate purple pansies in hard-to-get places in the Pyrenees Mountains. Dr. Pan, a scientist who also loves to paint pansies on pieces of purple paper, created me. She created me because Peter Park, a scientist and spelunker, fell off a cliff while trying to cross-pollinate purple cliff pansies.  Dr. Pan was scared that that would happen again, so the idea to create a bug for the job was ideal. She created me with six legs, all with sucker cups on the ends to attack me to the cliff, a pouch for the pollen, a soft brush, multiple eyes and two antenna to sense purple pansies with. I am fuzzy and soft all over, so that I can catch any pollen that falls away. I am brightly colored so that Dr. Pan can see me as I climb the cliff and my fur gives off a bad scent if danger, such as birds or bigger bugs, is near. I can climb on the top of caves and up cliffs where purple pansies live. I eat part of the pansies’ purple pigment to stay alive on the job, but Dr. Pan feeds me popsicles in the lab. I make my home in a pot near the pool. I like the way my sucker cup feet sound on the metal; they echo and pop when I walk. I have a round head, a cylindrical brush, antenna, and legs, and quadrilateral body and semi-spheres for feet.

The Beastbug (no picture)

The Beastbug lives anywhere from a tropical rain forest to a savanna. It burrows deep underground within the root system of trees. It can take the nutrients from the roots but it prefers to kill and eat other creatures with its powerful pinchers. It is called the beast bug because it is a beast, it can kill almost anything. Its pinchers can inject deadly venom, which can kill a human in a few hours. The Beastbug only comes out of its burrow once or twice a month.

The days that he comes outside of its burrow consists of a typical pattern. Early in the morning he goes hunting and eating a smaller insect. Then once he is finished he goes out searching for any dead animals that he might have poisoned the last time it was out. But it is mostly just wandering around enjoying the scenery.  Then after his walk he searches for a large meal, such as a bird or a rat that he can store in his burrow.

The Beastbug has no natural predators, because he killed them all. All animals that know of his presence are afraid for their life. They respectfully fear the Beastbug because of its Beastness. Thankfully the Beastbug tries to avoid human contact as much as possible, because if it did not, we would be in a lot of trouble.

Woodical (no picture)

Hello little kiddies, my name is Woodical! I kill you! My job is to keep little ant colonies safe and sound. The little ants feel safe when I am around because I have explosives that God gave me when I was created. These explosives come in handy sometimes, because little grasshoppers and praying mantis’ come along and try to eat the little ants and their food. They work so hard for their food and when something comes along and tries to steal it, the ants call me and come over and I blow them up. One day there was a grasshopper named Chopper, and he was trying to steal a little ant’s ham sandwich. The president of the ant colony came and got me at the lake, where I spend most of my time watching frogs eat little flies. He told me Chopper was trying to get of his ant people’s ham sandwich, and I said you don’t take an ant’s ham sandwich especially if he has mustard on it. So we went back to the ant colony, Crawler’s Colony, and we told Chopper he needed to leave or I kill you! He did not believe me so I blew him up, and while in the process I blew my self up too. That is my other little secret, I am a zombie bug. I also got fired from what was left of Crawler’s Colony, but I learned something important that day. Location, location, location. Now I am a free agent looking for hire. I am a rectangular cube with bullets, wings, and speed. The only geometrical challenges I would have trouble with would be going through a triangular passage or going through a circle. I can walk pretty well although I prefer to fly, and I love ham sandwiches. I also like steaks and baked potatoes. I tried putting my wanted add on eharmony for bugs but apparently no other zombie bugs exist so apparently I am extinct.

Honors Geometry

A Day in the Life of My Geometry Bug

Waterfall angular Polygon was a very lonely bug.  Most bugs just called her Polly.  Not many bugs talked to her and often times she was made fun of for her large figure.  She had a twin bug named Mikaelagon who was very mean and most of the time she was the one that started the jokes about her sister.  The only bug friend she had at the time was Jesus.  He was always there for her and He was her only friend. One day, another bug in her class, Pipagon (also known as Pip), came up and started a conversation.  They soon became best friends and did everything together.  More and more bugs started hanging out with Polly and she became very popular, which caused her to have a very proud spirit.  A few weeks later, in Geometry class, Polly started making fun of her best friend, Pip.  Pip started crying and was very upset.  Polly, at first, didn’t care that she had hurt her best friend’s feelings but after a few days of no communication between them she felt really bad about what she had done.  She wanted to make it right so the next time she saw Pip, she apologized to her.  Most bugs thought Pip was a nerd, so when Polly apologized to her, all of her other bug friends got mad and ditched her.  But she came to realize that all the other popular bugs weren’t a good influence on her life and that the only friend she really needed was Pip.  Even though they had an argument, it helped them become better bug friends.  And still, to this day, they sit in Geometry class, cheering each other on and making each other laugh, just hoping that they’ll make it till the end of the class without dying.

A day in the life of my Geometry Bug

My bug that I have created is called the “TRI-ANGULAPOD BUG”. He is a shy bug with many different shapes that go about him. He lives in tunnels that he makes out of the ground that he digs with his Mandible’s, these tunnels are called Shy-holes. My bug uses these holes to escape from his most feared predator, the Scorpion. The only place in the world that my bug is found in is in Egypt beside the Nile River. The only thing that my bug eats is small fish that he finds in the Nile River.

One day while Mr. Tri-angulapod was eating a baby fish that he had caught in the Nile River; a Scorpion was watching him from behind a cactus. And right when he was done eating his fish the scorpion had jumped out from behind the cactus and started running at him at lightning speed. So Mr. Tri-angulapod started running as fast as he could, but the scorpion was gaining on him. So he jumped into one of his Shy-holes that he made a long time ago and it turned out that the scorpion could not manage his way into the hole.

Mr. Blokus’ Adventure

Whoosh! Down came the giant mechanical bird that was trying to eat Mr. Blokus. Mr. Blokus is a mechanical beetle made of lego cubes and rectangular prisms with a couple of planes here and there. “That was close,” he said as he ran to the shelter of a nearby rock. His home was only ten feet away but he couldn’t get there because of the bird. “I need to distract him,” he said. He soon had an idea. He would take a big bunch of grass and make it into a shape that looked somewhat like him. He thought it wouldn’t work because of the color but then he remembered that birds cant see color, mechanical ones that is. Then he would throw it out in the open on one side of the rock and escape to his home on the other side of the rock wile the bird was busy with the grass. His plan worked and the bird didn’t even notice till Mr. Blokus was walking into his home.

A day in the life of my Geometry Bug-The Story of Pipagon

Pipagon was the star bug of the British circus. She was the main entertainment of the whole circus. People would come from far and wide just to see her perform. They would admire her gorgeous pentagonal body, and cylindrical legs.  Pip could fly from one object to another, doing back flips and front flips with her beautiful oval wings. All other bugs wished that they could be as famous and talented as Pip.  The audience’s favorite of her acts was when she would chase a particularly fat lion tamer around and around the circus.  The audience would roar with laughter, and shout loudly, “Pip, Pip, Pip!”

For a while, she stayed as the star of the circus, but soon a new bug took her place as the best bug around. The bug’s name was Charlotte, and she was a spider. She could weave such beautiful webs that the audience would just stand in awe. After Charlotte came to the circus, no one would pay attention to Pipagon and her back flips.

It was after a particularly awful day, when it happened. Pip had just overheard two people discussing how boring her act was compared with Charlotte’s act. She started crying, and big fat tears rolled off of her small face. When suddenly, a net came at her and she was caught inside it. Pip was put in a cage, and stuffed into big, metal thing that rocked around. For many weeks she suffered inside the ship. When she was removed from the horrible metal thing, she found herself in a building with big cement walls. After listening to other people’s conversations, she discovered that she was in a school, and more specifically she was in Geometry class.

Now Pip was a very smart bug; she had gone through Bug School with flying colors. She did her best in Geometry, and was soon top of the class. In the class, there was another bug named Polly. Polly didn’t have any friends, so Pipagon hung out with her and they soon became the best of friends.

All of Pip’s life, she had been the star. When that was taken away, she didn’t know what to do with her life. But Pip found something that was more important than being famous. Pipagon found a friend who would be with her through everything. She learned that no matter how famous she was, if she didn’t have a friend, she was missing out on something very special. 

Cylipheres Trapetangle-Lycaenidae Riodinidae

After years of searching, finally the least common bug on earth is found. Yes, you guessed it, a Cylipheres Trapetangle, or “CT” for short. CT can spend his days on land or flying through the air. He is able to withstand the coldest climates because of his unusual fluffy abdomen. CT’s diet consists of mostly fruits, although sometimes he’ll eat certain types of plants. His trapezoid shaped wings allow him to soar through the air at amazing speeds, and his spherical head allows him to move freely in whatever direction he wants to look in. His wings may look fragile to the human eye, but you can see the other geometric figures carefully connected in the inner parts of his wings. His eyesight is almost nonexistent at nighttime, so his neon coloring gives him a glow so that he can see! Because of this glow however, there is only one CT left on this earth. Every insect is drawn to the irresistible neon colors and cannot resist CT, but when it comes to larger bugs, CTs go to a better place.

He does have a unique defense strategy to keep him safe however, venom that burns a human’s flesh in seconds. While capturing this bug to bring to show you today, I was bitten on my finger, resulting in terrible pain. There is an anecdote known to treat this venom, but it is very acidic in itself. Don’t be alarmed, CTs are very content creatures, and tend to be scared of humans. So if you ever happen to be in the jungles of the Amazon, try to find a CT, and let your mind run free into the jungle of Geometry.

The Spiral Skipper-Polyhelicos Hesperidia

This unusual insect rarely seen to man is actually a distant cousin of the butterfly. It is different however because its wings do not flap, they actually spin therefore “propelling” it into the air. These spectacular insects live on the southernmost Galapagos Island. They have two main defenses against their predators, such as the Blue-footed Booby, it flies low to the ground to avoid detection, and if they are found they have a bubble of phosphorous to scare off the birds. Strangely enough they only eat one thing on the planet, Scalesia or commonly called here the daisy tree.

For the Spiral Skipper’s body I have a cylinder made of cardboard in which I have placed a remote control helicopter to give it a unique aspect. Spheres are used for the insect’s eyes and head, and a narrow piece of rectangular paper makes up its thin straw. As a tail I have used a cone, and for balancing purposes have allowed the blinking light on the helicopter’s tail to stick out. The real reason that it does not fly high is because its tail is heavier than its head so if he went high he would spin out of control. It also does not get high because its large body gets in the way of the air flow therefore not allowing the propellers to give it the proper thrust.

Symmetrioullus Cylinderous

Have you ever come across Symmetrioullus Cylinderous? If you have not, Symmetrioullus Cylinderous, a.k.a. Syms, is an insect that looks very similar to an ant. He is black, with three body parts, two antennas, six short legs, and a stinger. Syms has circles for eyes, and cylinders make up his three body parts. Syms is also segmented. Syms lives inside the bark of trees. During the day, Syms sleeps; but during the night, he crawls out to indulge on the leaves and twigs of his home. He eats at night so that he can blend in with the darkness. If he were to eat during the day, due to his color, he would not be that hard to locate on the brown bark. Due to his short legs, he is not a marathon runner. If predators were to find him, he would not be that hard of a catch for them. Since he is round, he cannot squeeze that far into the flat bark; therefore, he is not that far of a stretch for a predator’s mouth or tongue. If Syms is asleep while a predator comes, he is eaten because it takes too long for his brain to process that another animal is there; therefore, he is two seconds too late in using his stinger to get away. Once he does use his stinger, it falls out; and another stinger does not grow back until two weeks later, making him an even easier prey. How bad does he sting? Well, his sting is not poisonous. So you will not die. His sting generally swells up to the size of a golf ball, due to the puss inside. The only way to get rid of the swelling is to take a hot needle and poke it three days after the sting because it takes three days for the puss to stop forming.

To make Syms, I took a pencil, which is a hexagonal prism; and I wrapped black pipe cleaners, which are cylinders, around the pencil, using more in some places to make the body parts distinct. Once the pipe cleaners where in place, the body parts were segmented and in the shape of a cylinder. I used more pipe cleaners to make the legs, stinger, and antennas, making them cylinders as well. Syms ‘s eyes are circles because they are made out of rubber bands. Since Syms looks the same on both sides, I used the geometric property of symmetry. I chose cylinders and circles because I wanted to make Syms rounded, and segmented with a perfect shape of a stinger, eyes, legs, and antennas.

By Syvanna (no story)