Class Pets and an Adventure

This week my boys decided that we needed a class pet. We went through all kinds of animals from a dog to a snake trying to decide what would be the best for our class. Well Thursday we had the outside door open and a butterfly flew in. They got all excited because they thought this could be our class pet. So they shut all the doors so it could not get out then tried to catch it. They were discussing what they should feed it and one of the boys said we should get it some grass. Well they decided that maybe they do not eat grass and one of them suggested we get it a flower. After all the feeding debate they next had to decide where to keep it. They found an empty chip bag and put it in there. After much arguing it was decided to just let the butterfly go and not have it as our pet. Friday we tried a new pet. This time it did not fly into our room, but we had to go outside to get it. We have a little stream that runs just down the hill from our school. Our kids like to play down there and on this particular day they could not stay away from the water. Well come to find out there were tadpoles in the water. They went and got some buckets and cups to catch them. They ended up catching 3 or 4 of them. They put them in empty baby food jars with some water and mud in them. Once they caught them they were deciding what they should eat. One of the boys said that they just eat the mud in the water, so before he left for the day he asked me if I could come to the school on Saturday and give the tadpoles some more dirt to eat. We still have them in our classroom so if they stay alive we will keep it to watch it grow into a frog. They named one of them Freddy which will probably be the name for all of them.

On Saturday, two other teachers and myself went to the school to get some work done. We had been working for a while and were ready for a break. We have this hill at the school that our kids like to play on. They have been repelling down using a rope tied to a piece of concrete. It looks really fun, but we never do it because there are always tons of kids on it. Also this week they got these tubs and began sliding down the hill. Again it looks like a lot of fun but we never did it because there were kids around. During our break at school on Saturday we went sliding down the hill. We had a fun time and now know why our kids can't wait to get out there. After that we went on a little adventure. Behind our school are millions of coffee plants. We walked up the hill to see what all was up there. When we got to the top we saw coffee plants and banana trees growing together. It was really neat looking. After all of this we went back and finished our work. It was a fun day.