Turtle Times: Team 1 Friday, March 19, 2010

Second shift

This morning, or should I say early morning, Rocky didn't eat anything. Nothing. Zilch. A big, fat zero. Here's how it all started. "Rocky! Eat something!" I said. "You can't blame him," ZSA said. "You are forcing him like a mom forcing her kid to eat Brussels sprouts." I shuddered at the thought of Brussels sprouts, but turned cold as ice. "This ain't Brussels sprouts," I whispered coldly. "It's Reptomin, his favorite food." LURCH! SNAP! SNAP! "Finally!" I was relived. I thought, And I thought that Rocky was going to starve! I would be right and wrong, but anyways, I should think not of Rocky starving! He's already growing, and we are overfeeding him. He is still as cute where we found him though, My thoughts trailed off. While I was thinking, I fed Rocky Reptomin. What snapped me out of my thoughts is that I heard something scrapings on the glass! It was very faint. Like a cat purring 5-ft away. "Oh Rocky! Stop doing that to the glass!" And he obeyed. Oh! We have to go to morning meeting! Bye!

Third shift

I fed rocky 18 reptomin to at a time snap snap snap. Rocky got them all !!! next i gave rocky a blood worm cube. Rocky snapped he got some. He snapped again he got some more.Then in one more snap he got the rest!!! Then sat down stuck his head up then back down.

Fourth shift

Today I fed rocky 10 Reptomin 2 bloodworms now he's like a monsterous machine just eating like 12 pieces a second CHOMP, chomp, chomp. A few minutes later I think Rocky ate 4 bloodworms. If he didn't, he ate one veggie cube. I was amazed because he never eats them. A long time after that, Rocky finally he ate a WORM!!!. Rocky always SNAPS at my finger.

How We Found Rocky

“Can we run to the basketball court?” was the last thing that I heard before the commotion broke out. “TURTLE, A TURTLE!” “Everyone, I see a turtle!” Two girls screamed out in a chorus. When I looked down by my feet, I saw a little critter, the size of a 50¢ piece. It looked like it was covered with powdered cinnamon sugar. The first thought that popped into my head was “Oh my gosh, we could have stepped on it, but this must be it’s lucky day.” Then I thought, “I can’t let this moment pass without calling everyone over.” “Hey folks, come over here, there is a turtle.” The rest of the class ran over like stampeding buffalos, then stopped in their tracks, made a circle and sat down.

There was much chatter and many questions. I knew inevitably someone would ask, “Can we keep it?” I started to debate with myself. “If we keep it, I don’t have a turtle curriculum.” “That doesn’t matter, you’ll develop it as you go.” “Well, there is a Blanding’s turtle conservation project going on. What if this is Blanding’s turtle and we let it go? We will have missed the opportunity to participate.” “Go for it. Keep it. You can call the local turtle experts to get all the help you need.”

No sooner than I finished the debate, did that moment arrived. “Can we keep it?” a tiny voice chirped. Everyone held their breaths, waiting to hear my decision. “If we take it in, we need to understand that it isn’t a pet. The purpose of taking it in would be to act as stewards and raise it through the winter to give it a better chance of surviving.” I explained. A collective “Yeah!” filled the play ground. Little did I know, when we set foot on the playground that afternoon, that our school year would be changed forever. We are all the better for being the stewards of our guest turtle, Rocky.

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