This Week’s Adventures: We learned all about turtles! Favorite Activities: We got to meet a diamondback terrapin and compared its features to a box turtle. We pretended to move like turtles and acted out how box turtles protect themselves. We decorated our own turtle vests by printing scale patterns on them with egg cartons. We loved getting… Read more »
This Week’s Adventures: We learned about snakes! Favorite Activities: We loved meeting a real king snake and learned why it truly is “king” (it eats other snakes). We examined snake scale patterns and coloration, which was fun using real snake shed snake skin. We also pretended to be snakes by wearing pantyhose, the real trick… Read more »
This Week’s Adventures: We discovered things that will be hatching this spring from all kinds of strange eggs! Favorite Activities: We searched for eggs in the water, trees, grass and under logs. We sculpted our own nest with eggs and stitched nest helpers using scrap yarn. We hid our own eggs (tennis balls) in the meadow and placed them in grassy nests – then we… Read more »
This Week’s Adventures: We took one amazing, bumpy ride in the hay wagon with Mr. Wally this week! We searched for snakes and stumbled upon mayapple along the way. Miss Laura visited our classroom with the Eastern Kingsnake and Hognose snake much to our delight. We used our fingerprints to create snakes along with paper… Read more »
