Myers's Best Friend

Ah, the joys of yard ecology. Here are some pics of Myers and his best friend. It'll work best in dialog:
"This is roly poly. Him is my best friend. I lub him so much!"

One of the few animals/invertibrates that Myers has seen and not wanted to eat... like Sam the Lobster at Red Lobster and the Crawdads we caught last time at the river.

 

 

 

 

The Big Read

Next week on May 11 my Language Arts class will be sponsoring a pilot attempt at creating a mini-Big Read (where everyone in the area reads one book in the same time frame to spur discussion of issues raised, etc.) in our school.
For this year the idea of doing a novel was a little taunting for a first go, so we are doing The Lorax. Every class in the school will read the Lorax during homeroom and then we will encourage all class periods to have discussions or complete activities related to topics in the Lorax and their subject area.
If anyone has neat ideas or suggestions that I can pass on to math, science, or social studies teachers in particular, let me know!
Thanks--

Elk flu?

Nothing says "It's time for an impromptu trip to Cades Cove" like a healthy case of the flu.
To celebrate Bailey's double whammy of strep throat and flu, we drove up to the cove for the afternoon. When you think about it, there are few better places to go to get away from people than the Loop road on a rainy Saturday. Plus, we had to buy our obligatory "Garbage Kills Bears" and "Save the Hemlocks" bumper stickers for the new car. Woo doggie!
Even though it was the middle of the afternoon we were happy to see 14ish deer and rumors of a bear just around the bend. We didn't follow the camera-toting Alabamians to find out, though.
Pictures will be coming soon--