Scully, the ball python, will be leaving us this Wednesday. The students lucked out today because they got to see him in the process of shedding. His cage was an extreme mess when I arrived this morning, and there are pieces of skin all over the floor, as well as several still peeling off his body. Definitely a learning experience!
I decided that the 2nd graders would choose our next 2 week visitor. I gave them the options of live animals that we can borrow from Region 20. Each pair of students had a different animal to research. They used their Thinking Hats to: Find information, think about the positives and negatives, find what was interesting, and write their feelings about that animal. Then they presented their results to the rest of the class. The choices were: Hissing Cockroach, Green Tree Frog, Green Anole, Land Turtle, Water Turtle.
It was close, but the Green Anole was the winner once all presentations were made and the class voted. So, that will be our next visitor!
We also worked on some creative thinking by doing a S.C.A.M.P.E.R. activity. We used “C” for “Combine”, and the students combined hay wagons with whatever they imagined. I put a couple of examples in the photo gallery. One shows a hay wagon with wings, and another shows a wagon being carried into the air by an H.E.B. plane!
Lastly, we worked on some math problem solving by playing a game called, “Where is the X Tile?” The students used clues to figure out “x”.