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Hi Everyone,

Here are some pictures of two Reptile Educational Shows I did this month. I also posted a link at the bottom to more pictures as there are to many pictures to post here. Me and my kids had a ball doing these shows. My two older sons did a great job with helping me with the snakes. These show where a little different than my class room show, as I had people coming in at different times though out the show. So I basically just showed off the snakes and answered any question people asked. When I was not answering questions about the snakes I would talk to them about the snakes I had out and the history about them. At both shows I did get a few people that where afraid of snakes to hold them and by the end of the show there fears where gone. One even wants to get a pet snake now.

These pictures are from the Chesterton CMS school science fair on 10/ 18/2011.

These pictures are from today 10/29/2011 at the Thomas Library in Chesterton.

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Take care,
Tom
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It's great to see kids getting an education when it comes to snakes. Great work on your part. Thanks.

the snakes so much...
Nice job!
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Amanda Burke
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The event that drove me to go out and catch my first snake was when someone brought a garder snake into my classroom. I have that visual in my head to this day and from that point on I was hooked. That is when I started coming home with "seaweed" in my hair and that black swamp muck from head to toe because I was swimming through the swamps trying to catch water snakes. Mom loved that!

It is very important to get the truth about snakes to kids before all the stereotypes turn them off. I go in every May and show off my stuff as well. Great job Tom!

Steve Ihrig - sdi