Great Sighting!

Yesterday, Mr. Tundrateacher and I saw our first snowy owl! We were driving by a small field near our school and Mr. T said, "Wait a minute, that snow pile is looking at us!" It was an owl just sitting in the middle of the field. As if that weren't cool enough, the owl then took flight and went pretty much right over our car. It was amazing! And quite huge. We were both surprised at its size. We definitely need to keep an eye on our dogs (particularly SoCo, the littler one) because we both thought the owl was capable of getting her if it really wanted to. Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera at the time, so I will post someone else's picture:


The picture from Wednesday is of an Arctic Fox. Sadly, we did not take that photo either. I actually don't think we've seen a fox here yet. We used to see foxes in the interior village we taught in a few years ago, but we haven't seen an Arctic one here. One of my commenters said the kids have been seeing them around town, so hopefully we'll catch a glimpse.

We're all glad it's Friday (although the teachers at our school have inservice tomorrow). We showed a movie as a reward for the kids who met their first quarter reading goals after school today. It was fun to hang out with them outside of class.

Tomorrow is also a big carnival sponsored by the Rotary Club at our district's elementary school. Lots of the kids and community members attend for games and fun.