The first week we had snakes, Mr. Milledge and I are comfortable with them but when we had a sub for one day the snake had to leave. The children all loved it and even named it Sam when during one of the videos they discovered how to sex a snake. A boy has a sharp pointy tail; the girl's tail is thicker and rounded. FYI. We made noodle snakes, paper snakes and we started our Journals. We have 2nd graders going into 3rd and a class of 1st going into 2nd. On the last day of the first week we did a smelling test. we had 6 containers of different extracts, orange,mint, strawberry, lemon,chocolate and cherry. The two citric acid smells confused them so much. One of the first graders, could not let it go that he was smelling two lemon while his partner insisted that they were both orange. For a while the discussion became heated until the second set of partners came along and got the scents correct. Mr. M then explained how both were based on the same base odor and that was why each sort of smelled alike.
The second week we did Bats and Birds, 2 days of Birds and two of Bats,oh yes I forgot we only go Monday - Thursday. This week we had a pair of Zebra Finches in our room. The children were not as fascinated with them as they were with the snake. I think it was because they could not hold or touch them. The Finches were very noisy though, especially when the kids were loud. We made bird nests and discussed different types of birds. On Wednesday we switched to Bats and that was when all of the misconceptions about them came out. We watched a couple of videos about bats . The boys were thoroughly disappointed that all bats weren't VAMPYRES. on Wednesday we made bat wings with toothpicks or Popsicle sticks and today,the 26th, we made Oreo Bats .
They came out really cute. Of course, non made it home.
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