Living Materials Center

Our school district has a Living Materials Center housed at an intermediate school. The building has dozens of animals living in it, which the middle school takes care of during the school year. Teachers can check out the different animals and take the animal to their home campus for a week at a time. Our school has had a hedgehog, ferrets, snakes, etc. During the normal school year, just the students in that program care for the animals. During school breaks and summer, kids 10 and older can volunteer there. Ashton went through the training and has volunteered there a bunch over the past year. Parents are welcome to join so I was able to come with one Friday when Joseph was off of work. We cleaned the ferrets enclosure and a bird enclosure. Then, the animals come out to play. Ashton played with the ferrets, hamsters, and snakes. I stuck to the little hamster.