Johanna Speaks

Coyote Peterson is in” Kwazula-Natal, South Africa in Sand Forests”. He is trying to find a chameleon. Coyote Peterson said” tall grass stalks is very important when it comes to finding chameleon’s”. You will find very fine sand next to the tall grass stalks. 

Females will lay their eggs into the very very soft sand and as they begin to hatch, they come out and they are thinking of how can I get higher up? At night they will climb up to the very top of the grass stalks. They will hang there and assume that nothing can get them. Sometimes they are right but when it comes to finding them and getting them in front of camera’s it’s going to be kind of easy because when you show a light at them they glow like little glowing grapes on the very ends of the tall grass stalks. 

They found a very teeny tiny chameleon! It is super cute! Coyote Peterson snipped a part of the grass stalk of which the baby chameleon was on so he does not disturb it. When they first saw the baby chameleon it was sound asleep on the grass stalk. :)  But after awhile it opened its eyes. 

Chameleons use their tails to balance themselves on tree branches and tall grass stalks and more things. Their feet look like oven mitts and those oven mitt like feet help them grip and hold the body in place. It’s rather simple to find chameleons. Well if you know where to look. ;) 

From a predator view it looks like the lizard is apart of the environment. 

Coyote Peterson let go of the baby chameleon and kept looking for a bigger chameleon. 

They found a “ Flap Neck chameleon” female!  

The feet of chameleons are called “ Zygodactylus”. Which basically means two toes in the front and two toes in the back. Coyote Peterson said” chameleons are capable of using their feet and their tail to help them move pretty much effortlessly through the tree tops”. The cool thing about chameleons are that they can move their eyes to 180 degrees from any direction which gives the reptile the ability to see 360 degrees within its environment. Wow!

The tongue can be two times the length of the body. That is really long!

They have very sharp claws and teeth. 

Chameleons can’t just change to any color you place it on. If I put it on my shirt it will not change to whatever color I have on my shirt. They change their color, based on their moods and they can change color also if something like a predator was to come. Which is actually pretty cool!  

They are also a very fragile species. So you always want to be very careful when you are handling with any type of chameleons.  

I just bought a Capo for my classical guitar today. A Capo is a thing that you put on your guitar and when you strum the guitar it makes it sound higher. You can play really beautiful songs with it. 

I have been planning on buying a Capo for a while but never really got around to it. But now I just bought one. It is going to come in tomorrow! I can't wait! 

Here is a picture of a Capo:

I keep losing my picks! If you don't know what a pick is it's a thing that you use when you are playing guitar. You hold it in your hands and you use it when you are strumming or picking. If you don't have one it's going to be pretty hard to play guitar. My brother Nicholas has a whole bunch of them so he gave me five of them! I am super thankful he gave me some because I keep losing mine!

Here is a picture of the picks he gave me:

I got a classical guitar! 

I have been learning guitar. I got this app called" Simply Guitar".  It learned me all different types of chords you can do for songs. And I learned almost all of the chords you can play. I am still doing simply guitar. But I have been mostly searching up songs on YouTube. 

I did learn a song but the hardest thing about playing the guitar is probably switching between each chord. And that's the problem I am having with the song. So technically I am still learning. I already like playing the guitar! 

My brother Nicholas is also is learning how to play the guitar. He has an acoustic guitar they sound the same to me so I guess they are? I think they are but one just sounds a bit differently. 

He already knows how to play a lot of songs and it sounds really good!! I can't wait to learn how to play the guitar and play lots of beautiful songs. I also really want to learn how to read sheet music! That would be great! I practice the guitar every day! I play on it for about ten minutes in sessions of the day each day. 

I learned almost all of the chords on the guitar. So I have been searching for very easy and nice songs to play on YouTube. I clicked on a video that looked easy to play but it was a little hard still. 

I can also play Happy Birthday! Well, not all of it just a little bit. It sounds pretty good though! 

Here is a picture of my Classical guitar and a few videos of a little bit of what I can play on the guitar. 

Coyote Paterson is in Florida Keys. And is going to a island called” Raccoon Key”. 

They made it! Coyote Peterson feel’s like he is on another planet when he is walking on the Island. The ground is super dense.

 Coyote found a really big pond! All of it looks like rock at the bottom. But as he goes a little bit farther it’s beginning to get a little muddy. He looks into the water. He sees an iguana! Coyote Peterson thinks it might be dead. So he puts his hands in the water very slowly and gets a nice hold on the iguana. And sure a nuff it’s defiantly alive! It is a green iguana. It’s really beautiful. And really cool looking! It has sharp claws and spikes that is on its back.  Iguana does great in saltwater. Iguanas are really good swimmers. He let go of the iguana into the water. Then he found another one. You can tell it was not the same one because this one had a darker type of green. Iguanas will hide out in a bush and when they hear something coming towards them then they will go into the water and hide out there intel the thing or animal goes away. The one that they caught was a little smaller than the other one. He let go of the iguana into the water. He went to go and look for more cool stuff and other types of animals he could find. 

He found another iguana!!

Green iguanas can hold their breath for close to 30 min. 

 This one was defiantly bigger than the other two. This iguana's skin color was almost like yellow. It has a very long tail! In full length, the iguana is about 4 feet long!  

Coyote Peterson named the iguana “ Dark Headed Dragon of the Raccoon Key”. And then let it go back into the water.

We just finished sewing the bags! Mine and Sophie Phillips look really good!! I am really happy with it!

The hardest thing about sewing the bag for me is probably getting the lines straight when you are sewing on the machine. When I go really fast on the machine I feel like it's actually easier to get the lines straight when going fast. But sometimes I don't really get them straight. When you are doing the inside of the bag it does not really matter if you don't get the lines straight because nobody is going to look inside the bag at the lines and say they did a horrible job.:)

The easiest part for me while doing the bag is probably lining the fabric up with the foot on the machine. 

I just love sewing!! It's soo much fun!!

Here is a video of the bag I made:

I don't have a picture or a video of Sophie Phillips's bag unfortunately. But her bag looks really good!!! 

The next project is going to be pajama pants and I am so excited!! I can't wait!! I will definitely take a picture of me in them when we do the pajama pants.:)