School stuff!!

***WARNING*** If you are NOT ok with creepy crawly images, quickly skip down with your eyes closed. 2 images may/ DO contain creepy crawly, fangy creatures!!!

It is beginning.

School Stuff.

Its not just parties, fun books, math games, and ABC's anymore.

Nope.

We're getting into research and REPORTS!!

Tracen came home one day with a paper saying they were doing research reports.

Each student got to choose an "ANIMAL" to report on.

When you hear the word "ANIMAL", what do YOU think of?

I think of puppies, kittens, lions, tigers and bears... OH MY!!!

But did Tracen choose something fluffy and cute?

HEAVENS NO!

Look what he chose...

That my friends, is a GOLIATH BIRD EATING SPIDER!!

(These are really "tame" pictures by the way- didn't want to send anyone into the kind of panic attacks I had)

I say, as Tracen always says, "SERIOUSLY?"

....SPIDERS?....GIANT TARANTULA TYPE SPIDERS?...

"SERIOUSLY?"

I couldn't even touch some of the books we checked out without being afraid of being sucked alive! Not to mention some of the videos we discovered on YouTube.

*Did you know that, despite their name, they don't "usually" eat birds? Nope, they usually eat snakes, other spiders, small animals, etc... They simply bite their prey with their long venomous fangs and wait for the poison to paralyze them. Their insides turn to liquid and they just suck it all out leaving just a shell.

I now have ARACHNOPHOBIA! I am NOT ok with any of this "knowledge"! BUT, I suppose that this was TRACEN'S report, not mine.

Now, not all of 2nd grade is consumed by such gross things. I now speak of...

BOOK REPORTS!!!

Tracen has been reading many a great book these days, so his teacher asked if he would like to share one of these books with his classmates. He was thrilled and chose...

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

by Sir Thomas Malory (Abridged version of course)

He chose to do a "SHOE BOX REPORT". A Diorama of one of his favorite scenes from the book.
This would be Sir Galahad and his brave horse fighting a fire-breathing dragon!! With some lovely trees and a squirrel in the background.

Did the whole thing himself, except for a few cutting out and tricky gluing issues. He then got to present it to his class. He said his class thought it was "really cool". So SCORE!!
Now on to TYLER!!!

His Kindergarten class celebrated their 100th DAY AT SCHOOL by having a Hoe Down Party! I LOVE KINDERGARTEN!! There is always a party for everything!

He got to wear his BEST COWBOY ATTIRE!

They were making hats and scarves in class, but he wanted a picture with daddy's cowboy hat on. PLEASE excuse that it says CORONA on it. Got it in Mexico.

PERFECT!! Right down to his belt buckle. (straight from Texas-courtesy of Uncle Shane.)

Here is the "real" hat and scarf they made in class.

Now THAT is ONE REAL COWBOY!!!

*Stayed tuned, or not, to many more school adventures, that hopefully DON'T include creepy crawlys.*