Old World, New World

 For presentations this month, Jared decided to give a presentation for his Reptile and Amphibian Merit Badge.  He was supposed to present the facts about three different reptiles or amphibians and he chose, the Horned Toad, the Frilled Lizard and the American Alligator.  He was very creative about it and pretended to be an officer presenting the facts for these three suspects which were at large. 

 This was his rendition of how the frilled lizard runs.  It was pretty funny.  We also watched a video of the frilled lizard running, which had everyone laughing.

 Clarissa was inspired by our studies of the New World explorations and the Ancient Americas.  Jaguars were important to the people of the Ancient Americas and she wanted to know the difference between a Jaguar and a Leopard, so she studies that and presented the identifying marks of the four great cats: The Jaguar, Leopard, Tiger and Lion, all of which are part of the Genus Panthera.  One interesting thing we learned is that there is really no such thing as a black panther, it is either a black jaguar (if it's in the New World) or a black leopard (if it's in the old world).

 Krystal gave a short report about William Shakespeare.

Then we did a short Reader's Theater called "Which Shoes do You Choose," it was really cute.