Owl Pellets

Tomorrow is my favorite day of science the entire year! My kids get to disect owl pellets. One may ask "what is an owl pellet? Well- it resembles poop- but actually an owl cannot digest food so they regurgitate it- meaning they throw it back up in the form of a pellet. We find bones from all kinds of small rodents and get to match them up to a chart and figure out what kind of animal their owl ate for dinner. If you know me at all you know that I am a GIRLY girl. So today I went to SAMS and bought 500 plastic gloves for $5 (I thought that was a deal!) because I cannot bare to see the kids touching this with their hands- even if they have been "sterilized." We actually start off tomorrow by watching an episode of Dirty Jobs called "Avian Vomitologist". Very cool! Even though I have a math degree- I LOVE teaching science. I have learned so much this past year and it amazes me how much these kids are learning. I will try to take some pics tomorrow and post them so you can enjoy my science lesson too!