Turtle Times: Team 3 Tuesday, March 30, 2010

This morning, Rocky ate 5 Repotomin and a Tuboflex worm cube. This afternoon I gave rocky a huge handfull of Reptomin, thinking he couldn't eat much of it. Rocky didn't like them so I went to type my blog. When i finished my first sentence, I went to check on Rocky.
I expected to see all the Reptomin still there, but there were just four left!!! :) Then OL gave Rocky two handfulls of Reptomin.
Rocky didn't eat them, so it was a waste. :( Rocky loves reptomin VERY much. I can't belive Rocky ate so much Reptomin in five seconds.

Today Rocky ate 200 Reptomin for me and one cube. He always ate 10 but one by one. Rocky also ate 500 blood worms off a cube. Rocky once curled his head and got the Reptomin.

I wasn't here today but JJ and OL told me that Rocky ate 200 Reptomin. He made a new record.

This time Rocky ate 269 and 500 blood worms out of a cube, and two wiggly worms in about a second or less. He'd snap like a baby croc. It was amazing like a dinosaur on earth right now! Sometimes we would throw in a bunch of Retomin and wait for Rocky to eat them. Rocky would gobble up the Reptomin like Cookie Monster, and sometimes Rocky would eat 6 Reptomin at a time and swallow them whole, it was really cool. When we fed Rocky the water it looked like goo and slime. Today Rocky tried to climb the filter but he fell down. What if he made it to the top, that would be awesome. Rocky looks like a skateboard because he has all these designs on him and a skateboard does too, and his four legs are like the wheels. Sometimes Rocky would put his head under the heater to get warm.

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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