Weird and fun!

We had so much fun in reptiles today! We began the class by watching a few clips from the new Planet Earth II. The Aquatic Iguanas and the snakes were SO exciting!

We also learned about some of the weird reptiles and Amphibians in the world, like the Mexican Mole Lizard and the Glass Frog.

We spent the rest of class creating our own reptile of amphibian. The things the kids came up with were AMAZING!!!!  Their animals had the most incredible powers, like never being able to die or be seen, but if they were seen then they would die. Also sticking out their 90 ft. tongue in 1 second and hypnotizing boys so that they will like them. What beautiful imaginations these kids have.

They are all very excited for Cardboard City next week and we are looking forward to the next group of kids coming in 2 weeks.

Teacher Shannon + Teacher Jamie

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Today we learned about snakes! Eeewwww! Ok, just for me, the kids loved it! We talked about the different characteristics of snakes and saw pictures of the biggest and smallest snakes,  and talked about how they eat. We also discussed how dangerous snakes are and that we should be VERY cafeful around them.

We made paper chain snakes and bead snakes. We rounded out our day with a video of a snake striking and then eating it's prey! I thought maybe the kids would he scared, but they LOVED it!  Next week we will learn all about turtles.  So fun!
Teacher Shannon + Teacher Jamie

Week 2 - FROGS!

This week we learned about frogs. We started out making a Venn diagram showing the differences between frogs and toads (like, did you know that frogs have teeth in their upper jaws and toads don't?). Then we read a silly book that showed us what frogs eat... and what eats them! Finally, we glued together the life cycle of a frog, from spawn to mature frog and back to laying eggs. Next week... snakes... shudder.