hello there blog friends! are you still with me? i have lots of things to update you on...mainly the entire month of october! so, why have i been behind? well, it all started with my trip to jekyll. i went on a 3 day, 2 night field trip with my students to jekyll island. it was so much fun, but really exhausting {if you can imagine}. after getting off the bus with all those kiddos friday night, it was time to head to tennessee for the weekend. i had a wonderful weekend in the mountains {more on that later} but came back to a crazy week, complete with a 24 hour flu bug {yay} and hand writing report cards. so, here were are weeks later, and i have so much to catch you up on!
our trip to jekyll island was really fun. for someone that has been to the beach a lot, i learned so much about the wild life and how beaches change over time. we saw lots of critters while on our beach walks: various crabs and even beached jelly fish.
the north end beach of jekyll island is extremely different from the south end. here are some pictures of the north end. this spot use to be a maritime forest, but over time, the beach eroded and the trees died because of the salt water taking over. the huge trees fell and created this grave yard of trees, which were really cool. because fungi and bacteria won't grow here, the trees will not decompose and the salt will actually preserve them. {see i told you i learned a lot!}
we also had herpetology class, full of snakes, turtles, and even alligators. i was brave and held the snake.
then it was off to fish dissecting...which i did not participate in, but did watch.
i played mom a lot and had to pull a variety of stickers out of children and tell them how brave they are...check out the size of this one!
there were also tons of beautiful butterflies!
okay, that's all for now. i'll be back soon with more of october :)
