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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What will happen to the tarantula at the end of the school year?[/quote]

It will come home with me and be back in August.  By June, it will still be very small, probably less than an inch long.

For those who are concerned about students being afraid, I think you may be projecting adult fears.  My students are in first grade, and they are afraid of nothing (well, animal-related, at least).  Kindergarten classrooms have live beetles for their science lessons.  Across the hall from my room, a teacher has a pet snake and students can earn the prize of feeding it a mouse.  Other teachers have turtles, a lizard, hermit crabs.  Reptiles and other "scary" animals make good class pets because they are low maintenance and don't irritate allergies.

If I did end up with a student who had such a fear that it would impact learning, then of course I would move the spider somewhere else (probably to the snake classroom).  But I do not anticipate that happening.[/quote]

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