Wow, how did we get into August already?!
The summer has just flown by with all the fun we've been having at camp here at Tifft.
Although I'm sure that the campers were disappointed in not seeing tons of herps (reptiles and amphibians)on the trails, but we still saw a number of them and all learned some new things.
Below are some highlights of our 3 days dedicated to reptiles and amphibians, and I know we have some budding herpetologists in the bunch!
- Day 1-Frogs: we went on a frog hunt, played everyone's it, a game called "what do you know about herps?", made frog blowers and took a hike to the marsh for another frog hunt
- Day 2-Snakes: played 'pin the scale on the reptile' and looked at 'frog eggs', went on a snake hunt, learned all about Copper, the corn snake, Riley's pet snake he graciously brought in for the day, made breadstick snake snacks, created snakemobiles, sang a snake song, Mr. Dave shared a little brown snake he caught on the trail, and played 3 snake games-'rattlesnake', 'skin the snake' and 'snake in the grass'
- Day 3-Turtles: The rain didn't keep us from doing some fun stuff on this day-read books Frog Hunt and Turtle Splash, got to check the turtle traps Mr. Russ (a high school teacher that's doing a project at Tifft this summer) set out for us and see the 2 painted turtles that were in the traps, went on a turtle hunt, met George the Turtle and Maury, Cooper's leopard gecko, sang some turtle songs, played a salamander migration game, made turtle tambourines and ended the day with a round of 'moving meals', a frog game like 'red light, green light'
Here you will see photos from our 3 days together.
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