Snakes Alive!
On February 12, Mrs. Tracy Buscher, a science teacher at Southeast High School, presented a program about snakes to the third and fourth grades at Blessed Sacrament.
Far from being "snaky", the presentation was fascinating and also fun! Students learned how snakes keep warm, see, taste, eat, grow and shed skins.
Four snakes were "guests," "Scarlett," a corn snake, "Josephine," a king snake, "Rhea," a bull python, and "Beau," a boa constrictor. One "guest" was missing as it was traveling around Southeast High School in an unplanned adventure. We understand it appeared in the art room the next day.
No one was afraid to touch, hold, or "wear" the visitors around their necks. Many excited comments were heard, among them, "I want a snake," was repeated many times.
A successful class experience was demonstrated with the report on the following day from one student who stated that she asked her mother for a snake and was told NO! So now, she was going to ask her father.
Mrs. Buscher, who is the mother of third grader, Luke Buscher, has presented these programs to many schools for a number of years. She plans to return to the upper grade science classes soon.
