Turtle Fact Sheet

We started today by talking about how turtles are an example of perseverance. They may move slowly, but they don't give up. We memorized Hebrews 12:1. "Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."

Then we looked up facts about turtles. I asked Joel to dictate a fact sheet to me, recalling all we had read and talked about. Here's what he told me. I especially like the second fact. :)

10 FACTS ABOUT BOX TURTLES.

1. They like to swim in shallow streams.
2. Turtles don’t give up in races.
3. Most of the time they live in the forest.
4. They eat meat and plants when they are young, but plants when they are adults.
5. They can be little or big.
6. The ones in pet stores often are infected with salmonella, which is nasty bacteria.
7. “Fear the turtle” is the slogan of the University of Maryland Terrapins.
8. They can drink water.
9. Their shells protect them from other animals.
10. Turtles don’t eat if they are too cold or stressed.

Now!

Yesterday I called to my 16-year old, "Stephen! I want you to take the trash out now!"

He came up, chortling. "You should've heard Joel," he told me, lifting the garbage bag. " We were playing XBox and he said, "You know what 'now' means, Stephen? It means not later, not when you feel like it, now!"


Someone's sounding like Dad more and more all the time.