Field Trip!!

At the end of the year, I was able to take my students (along with the one other fifth grade class) on a field trip. One of the places we went was to Riot Zone, which has bumper boats, go karts, the giant inflatable toys, mini golf, rock climbing and all kinds of fun stuff. The kids had a blast trying to soak their teacher (and succeeding) on the bumper boats. I had a blast being able to let loose with the kids and my parent chaperones (I think we had more fun than the kids did!)

We also went to a place called "Bear World." What ya do is drive through this area where they have lots of different animals, like elk, deer, bison (buffalo), mountain goats, white elk, and of course . . . BEARS!! They have a few grizzley bears that are kept behind an electric fence and then they have about 30 black bears that are allowed to roam free as you drive through. It was pretty neat. We also lucked out and got to watch them feed the baby bears.

One of the other teacher's there needed a picture of the stuffed bear with the real bear. It was so cute because the real bear was trying to hug its stuffed counterpart. It was adorable!!

This little bear's name is Dozer (just like my dog!) I thought that was pretty cool :)

We all had way too much fun and at the end of the day I think EVERYONE was ready for a nap!! I know I was :)

Kittens!!

About a month ago our cat, Bobcat, had kittens. She originally had 6, but unfortunately one of the little black ones died :( But the other five are doing great and jus about ready to leave mama. So, if anyone is in the southeastern Idaho area and wants an ADORABLE kitten with seven toes on each front paw, please feel free to take one home :) Here are some pics of when they were first born.