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Guest blog post by Nolan (Family Blogging Month Winner!) Football Facts and a Sensational Story Are you ready to learn about football? Well, this blog post will tell you about football teams, scores and even includes a story I made! So take a seat and watch the game! Facts and Scoring There are 32 different teams in the NFL. NFL stands for National Football League. The teams are split into two parts, the AFC and the NFC. That is actually a division problem. 32 divided by 2 equals 16. So there are 16 teams in the AFC and 16 in the NFC. All teams have a stadium in a state. Two teams can have a stadium in the same state but just different stadiums in different places. For example, Texas has two stadiums. The Houston Texans have a stadium, and the Dallas Cowboys have a stadium in the same state, but just a different stadium location. In a game, one team starts with the ball and the other team defends . The team with the ball has four downs or turns with the ball. If they get the ball pas...

As part of our animal adaptation science unit, Beverly Critcher from  Wildlife Experience   brought three wild animals to Mrs. Yollis' class for careful scientific observation. She brought a salamandar, a striped skunk, and a great-horned owl. *     *     *     *     * Wildlife Experience  is a non-profit wildlife education organization that brings native and exotic animals to schools and teaches children about the importance of our natural world. Here is Ms. C., the owner of Wildlife Experiences. *     *     *     *     * First, we met an amphibian named Sally the Salamandar. She is called a tiger salamandar because of the stripes on her body.  Amphibians can breathe on land and in water. They have lungs, but also have tiny little holes called pores , on their skin. This physical adaptation allows them to breathe underwater.   Photo by Mrs. Yollis One physical adaptation s...

Written by Mrs. Yollis, Elie, Nolan, Rose, Brianna, Dylan B., and Josh As part of our animal adaptation science unit, Beverly Critcher from Wildlife Experience brought two wild animals to Mrs. Yollis' class for careful scientific observation. She brought a hedgehog and a gopher snake. Wildlife Experience is a non-profit wildlife education organization that brings native and exotic animals to schools and teaches children about the importance of our natural world. Here is Ms. C., the owner of Wildlife Experiences. Before we met the animals, we learned about a food chain.  What is a food chain?  A food chain is basically the circle of life. It always starts with a plant, which means herbivores  (plant eaters) are on the bottom of the food chain. Then a predator comes and eats that herbivore and gets all the energy . Then another animal comes and eats that animal and gets all the energy. Soon, we have an animal that no other animal eats. That animal is the top of the...