Common Garter Snake

There are many fascinating snakes in the world; we are looking at two.

On Thursday we learned about the Prairie Rattlesnake by reading Patulous, the Prairie Rattlesnake by Jonathan Kahn. Jonathan wrote and illustrated this national award-winning book when he was just nine years old!

Today our topic is the Common Garter Snake. Here is what we are doing:

Winter, Awake!
by Linda Kroll



Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold
by Joyce Sidman
"Snake's Lullaby," pp.8-9



The Animal Book: A Visual Encyclopedia of Life on Earth
"Snakes," pp.150-153
19 snakes, including garter snake, shown to scale with a 57 inch child



All Creation Waits
by Gayle Boss
chapter 15

I have a complete blog post listing all of the wintering animals covered in All Creation Waits. This is an extraordinary book, and works well as a classroom read aloud if you live in the temperate forest biome of North America (we do not read the final chapter, which is very religious). Each day in December, as we read about an animal at snack, we hang up the ornament of that animal. It's a lovely tradition!

Here are all the Advent Tree Photos.

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