The 2nd and 3rd grade class spent half of the school year earning a prize for collective good behavior. In discussing the prize, they either wanted a field trip or some sort of class party like pizza, ice cream, popcorn, and a movie.

When Pastor Trevor heard about it, He suggested a trip to the pet store for a class pet.

The kids were so excited and spent a week discussing names for their hamsters.

The Tuesday arrived and the kids piled into my van and Pastor Trevor’s van, and we made our way to PetSmart. The kids enjoyed every moment of walking through the store to find the hamsters, watching in the cages to choose their pets, and even picking out hamster treats/toys.

We got back to class and the girls decided on Hannah as the name of the light colored hamster and the boys chose Bobby for the brown (also female) hamster. Our class zookeeper, which changes weekly, finally got to have a job. Avalina was thrilled that it happened to be her!

Poor Juliet missed the field trip due to recently breaking her arm, but she got to be zookeeper the second week.

The kids have enjoyed their mostly inactive pets so far.