Now THAT'S A Snake!

If you've been following my blog, you know that my class has been learning about gardens and insects recently.  In one of our discussions we learned that some gardens have snakes.  Some snakes are good because they eat bugs and rodents.

When one of my students found a snakeskin near his home, he was so excited to bring it in!

Notice the little girl holding the toy snake (about the size of a typical garden-variety snake), but look at the adult holding the fully-connected snakeskin - it's a mammoth!

 

Now...if you don't particularly like snakes...shy away from these next two close-up photos!

After seeing this skin, we trekked out to our school garden lot.  Thankfully we didn't see anything this big - or even remotely so.