Snail Olympics!

Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to the Snail Olympics!

Event 1: The Big Race
How many centimeters can your snail travel in 2 minutes? We followed the slime trail with a piece of string and then measured that against a ruler.

Whisper cheering was allowed. "Go snail go!"

Event 2: Hurdles
How many pencils can your snail make it over in 2 minutes?

Event 3: Mountain Climbing
Can your snail make it to the top in 2 minutes?

Event 4: Tunneling
How many tubes can your snail make it through in 3 minutes?

No matter how their snail did, everyone had a blast!

Live Snail Lab!

Did you know that snails have 15,000 tiny teeth on their tongue? Technically it is a radula but you get the idea.

Today students explored live snails to identify the body parts we learned on Tuesday.

Then they measure the length and height of the snail and recorded their results.

I was excited to get such a good picture of the air hole while it was open.

Those are 1st grade fingernails not mine in case you were wondering!!!! :-)

Snail Study

Today we read this book and pretended to be snails which the kids thought was very fun!
Then we took we learned and labeled a giant snail I had made.

Then the students went back to their seat to see if they could label the snail diagram on their own (or with a little partner help if needed.)