Friday, October 7, 2011

Porcs, Hens and Preschoolers...Oh My!

Hi, my name is Kaylee.

On Saturday, my brother Kaleb killed a porcupine. He went down to Ole Creek in a boat with our dad and Terek and then he spotted it and he said it looked like a bear. Then he went over to shore and got it. Then they brought it home and gave it to Terek. Terek gave it to his mom to eat.

Yesterday we went and got gastroliths. A gastrolith is a little pebble inside a spruce hen. The spruce hens pick them up off the ground and grind up their food with the pebbles 'cause they don't have any teeth. We were studying inside a spruce hen and how they grind up their food and the digestive system. Today Andrew's going to bring over a dead spruce hen and we're going to dissect it. Then Andrew and Katy will eat it.

And preschool started on Monday. We have one preschooler right now. Her name is Shealayla and she is Kiara's little sister. Our preschool teacher is Tanya and Tanya never went to preschool but she loves teaching it.

I have to go. Bye!

The boy who killed the porcupine.

The class (l-r: Kaylee, Jolynn, Kaleb, Kiara, Andrew, and Aiden) looking for gastroliths. 

Dolly found a gastrolith!

Andrew holding gastroliths from a spruce hen that Kaleb shot.

Tanya, our preschool teacher, and Shea, our new student.

Shea-shea matching shapes.

The gastroliths

Jolynn staring at the board.

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