The Leprechan Story

I know I'm a way behind getting this posted, but Hayden wrote a fun story for St. Patricks Day this year. Here it is (I'm writing it exactly as he did):



Hi! My name is t-j. I have a little sisster Sohphie. I herard a thump in the air vent. was it just the air no. I heard gold. It is a leprechaun. It came out of the vent. It crashed in to me. I had a trap right in front of him he got traped but he uesd his majic wand to get out. I asked him if i could be his freind he said as you wish and we were friends.

Dissecting "Owl Vomit"

During the last couple of weeks of school, the 2nd graders did animal rotations. Hayden came home on his first animal-rotation day so excited about dissecting owl pellets he talked nonstop for about 30 minutes. Here are some things Hayden shared about his project:

-Owl pellets are like big hair balls - when an owl eats an animal, it can't digest things like bones and hair so it coughs them up. Hayden called it "owl vomit".

-Hayden assured me (even though I didn't ask) that his owl pellet was clean, sanitized in fact, so it was perfectly okay to touch it and dig through it.

-Hayden said it was the absolute coolest thing he has ever EVER done in school.

-Some of the girls liked it, but most of the girls thought it was gross.

-Hayden's owl pellet contained a couple of rodents - he knows there were two because there were two rodent skulls in his pellet.

-His assignment was to match as many rodent bones as he could find to each individual bone picture on his worksheet. Here is his worksheet:

Here is a picture of what owl pellets ("vomit") looks like before they are dissected:

Wow! 2nd grade is way cooler than it was when I was there.