Mrs. Hollifield's Class - October 17, 2007

Animal Tracks and Signs
NC Museum of Natural Sciences

Dylan
Today I went to the distance learning classroom to learn about animal signs and tracks. Today I learned about bear poop; when bear poop has green grass under it, that means the bear is near by and when the grass is brown under the bear poop, that means the bear is not close by. Another group had a raccoon track. It had five toes and five claws. Another group had a nut and a crushed nut and a broken pine cone. A flying squirrel put the hole in the nut to eat it. A gray squirrel ate the crushed nut. A gray squirrel ate the pinecone down to a nub, like corn on the cob. Another group had a stick with a knot in the middle where a baby fly lived until it was a grown up.

Audrey
Today my class and I went to the distance learning classroom to learn about animal signs and tracks. There were five groups. Each group had to figure out if it was a track or a sign, what it is, and who made it and what we learned about the animal. Our class learned about how and why snakes shed skin. My group had bear scat. My class also learned that an owl burps out a pellet. The museum lady showed the class a baby owl that was run over by a car. The baby owl was blind.

Zaria
My class went to the distance learning classroom. We learned about animal tracks and signs. We learned what animals eat and leave behind. We learned about an owl who coughed up a pellet and it had bones in it. We saw a nut, broken nuts, and a squirrel. We saw a raccoon track. It was fun.

Kaylie
Today I went to the distance learning classroom to learn about animal signs and tracks. we went to the room to see a videoconference. The lady at the museum showed us a black snake and a real owl that got run over by a car. After that he was blind. She even showed us real bear poop--scat. Then all of us got our items out of the bag and shes asked us questions. We had to answer them and each table picked someone to talk and someone to hold the items. We all had a number to hold up instead of raising our hands. It was fun.

Maria
Today my class went to a videoconference in the distance learning classroom called animal tracks and signs. First, we sat down. Then we read the rules. Then we got the wiggles out of us. Then the big screen came on and a lady was there. Her name was MT. She said good morning and how are you. Then we said good. Then she got out a black snake. Then she said that black snake go on trees and that most snakes don't go up trees. Snakes eat mice, rats, birds and squirrels. Then she got out an owl. Then she said that the owl had been run over by a car and can't see now. Then we got to activity number one. We had bear poop or scat. It ate a sunflower. The scat had seeds on it. Then after that we said good-by.

Tyler L.
My class went to the distance learning classroom. We learned about animal tracks and signs. I learn that an owl puts bones and fur in a pellet and that a snake sheds his or her skin off and under it there is new skin. I learned another thing, the mom fly has her eggs on a stem that makes a gall ball. The egg goes into the plant until it grows. It makes a hole and comes out to be a fly.

Quinton
My class went to the distance learning classroom. We learned about animal tracks and signs. There were five different tables. One was the owl table. Two was the squirrel table. Three was the bear table. Four was the gall ball table. Five was the raccoon.

Brandon
Today I went to the distance learning classroom to learn about animal signs and tracks. We saw a snake and an owl. We got to share what we had and we got to touch snake shed.

Mark
Our class got to learn about animal tracks and signs in the distance learning classroom. I was group 1. I had bear scat. I saw some more groups. One one group had a footprint. I was number 1. I think the bear ate sunflower seeds. The person was a woman from the Raleigh museum. I had me, Audrey, Marisa, Maria, and Dillon in my group. One group had a pinecone and nuts. That was interesting! Because the tree is not hurt! I just go around it. We got to see a real snake and an owl. I had so much fun. I did learn a lot!

Marisa H.
Our class got to go learn about animal tracks and signs in the distance learning classroom. We learned a lot from the videoconference. We had group two and in my group we had bear scat. It was a sign. We saw a real live owl and he got hit by a car so he can't see and that means that he is blind. We also saw a snake and the snake was very wobbly. I learned that if the bears poop is old, then the bear is gone and will not be back again. We also saw a raccoon track from Tyler's group. Marissa's group had a pinecone and nuts and a squirrel. They were opened and eaten by the squirrel. Taylor's group had a kind of stick and a fly laid an egg inside.

Taylor
Our class got to go learn about animal tracks and signs in the distance learning classroom. We sat down at tables. Then we got to work. One of the groups had bear scat. Another group had an owl pellet. My group had a gall ball that a fly lived in when it was a baby. It built a nest in the gall. It will sleep all winter. In spring the fly will wake up and come out of the gall. The other group had a raccoon paw print. The last but not least group had squirrel nuts. One of the nuts had been eaten by a flying squirrel. The nut was crushed by a gray squirrel. Another squirrel ate a pinecone.

Cody
Our class went to the distance learning classroom. We learned about animal tracks and signs. The lady showed us a rat snake and an owl, but it could not see. We saw a raccoon's footprint. The most cool one was the squirrel's nuts that was so cool. We do not see the animals alive. In my group I had Triana, me, Tyler, and Taylor. There were five tables. We had a gall ball. It was from a mom fly.

Shiann
Today I went to the distance learning classroom to learn about some cool things. We learned about animal tracks and signs. One thing my class learned was they had an owl that was run over by a car and it couldn't see anymore. So they had to take it to the museum. We learned that owls eat something and they can't stand it, so they throw it up and if you crush it, it will fall apart and the stuff that the owl ate will be in there. The way to find an animal sign is if a snake leaves its skin. You know that the snake is eating well and it grows and that's why the skin falls off. That's why it's so cool to stay in school to learn about animals.

Noah
My class went to the distance learning classroom. We learned about animal tracks and signs. Our class saw a rat snake and a screech owl. They eat do something different. Our class saw the lady hold bear scat. Our class had a good time.

Richard
Today our class went to the distance learning classroom and we learned about animal tracks. I learned that owls throw up their ball and they eat rats and cats and snakes eat rats and bugs leave a bump on a tree branch. I had so much fun there. We got to met a snake. We met a nice lady. My number was 12. My teacher is Miss McDermon. I love snakes.

Kacey
Today I went to the videoconference to learn about animal signs and tracks. Today I saw a snake sign and an owl pellet. The kind of snake is a black snake and the snake eats mice. The lady told us about animal tracks and signs. The lady told us about the animal signs called scat. We had a good time there. We learned all about animals tracks and signs. Then it was time to go. My number was 18. The owl got hit by a car so the lady got to keep it at the museum. My group had the owl pellet. One group had a nut and pinecone.

Marissa
Our class got to go learn about animal tracks and signs in the distance learning classroom. One of the animals was a raccoon. She showed us a beaver, then she showed us some signs where if they eat something and cough it up and if they pooped that will be a sign.

Nick
Today I went to the distance learning classroom to learn about animal signs and tracks. We saw a screech owl and a black rat snake. We saw a raccoon footprint and a half of a pinecone that a squirrel ate. We had a project to keep us quiet. It really worked.

Colton
Our class got to learn about animal tracks and signs in the distance learning classroom. We saw a raccoon track, a snake and an owl. The snake coiled up. The owl couldn't see. We saw bear scat.

Triana
My class went to the distance learning classroom. We learned about animal tracks and signs. Taylor, Cody, and Tyler L. were in my group. Our group learned about a gall ball. A fly lays an egg there. There was a hole in it. One table had bear scat. Oh, and I'll tell you the rest. Another had an owl pellet. One part is when we saw snakes skin on a real snake. My number was 9. There was an owl. It got hit by a car. It can't see now. I feel real bad about it.

Tyler W.
Today I went to the distance learning classroom to learn about animal tracks and signs. I had a good time at the videoconfernce. We learned about a lot of different things. I had so much fun. We learned about a lot of different animals. She showed us a black snake and things that were all about animals. But soon we had to leave. I had such a good time there.

Areli
Today I went to the distance learning classroom to learn about animal signs and tracks. She had an owl and snake and each of us had to sit at a table. Each of us had a number. We had to raise our number to the camera. We had a lot of fun. The owl got hit by a car so they had to keep the owl at their museum. The snake was moving around. We had to read the sheets and then we had to leave the classroom.