Jacqui said:
mctlong said:Hello and welcome. Those are very lucky ten-year olds to have tortoises as class pets.
Lasciels Toy said:Hello Janst and welcome to the forums. I love the idea of class pets! I still fondly remember our class rabbit in elementary school and how our family happily took him in every summer during vacation. There is tons of material on the forums about proper care, diet, substrate.
If your school has some land around it, I would see about portioning off a piece to make an outside enclosure as a learning experience for the kids. You could do design basics (each child drawing a layout, with hide, soaks, obstacles, and in the best position to utilize the sun), building basics (digging trenches and laying in wood or brick walls, outside wood enclosure based on possible predators, gardening (have groups of students choose an edible plant, study it, plant it and grow it), then all kinds of tort studies (prefererced areas, routines, growth), etc etc
There's just so many possibilities and all hands on teaching like that sticks for life, at least it did for me.
Keep us updated with how they are doing with the class. I'll let the more experienced members handle detailed care
