Last Environmental Class

Last Tuesday was our last environmental class until January when we move over to the zoo. We arrived a little early, incredibly (!), so we just walked around for awhile to take a nice last look. We walked out to the water to see if we could see any manatees. One of the workers told us he'd seen some that morning along with some stingrays. Unfortunately, we didn't see anything except some beautiful water in the morning light. Here the boys are goofing around while I'm taking pictures.

This is a gopher tortoise that was rescued from an abusive owner. His name is Scooter. We brought food during the term so we could feed Scooter. He's a nice tortoise and the kids love to go visit him.

This is the boys with our teacher, Mrs. Yoelly. She was very sweet and great with the kids. They all loved her! This was taken on our last day of class when she and the assistant teacher, Mr. Elias, had planned a surprise for us: They set up a fire in the fire pit for the kids to do smores! They had a blast!

We interrupt this tale of a fire to bring you a bird house we liked that hung waaay high up in a tree.

Now, back to the fire tale.... Here the boys are roasting their marshmallows for their smores.

Yummy smores....mmmm.

Maybe scraping the last of the marshmallow off the stick is better. Hmmm.....

We will miss this place and our teachers when we go over to the zoo.