Hoey Din

MISSION: This is a class project for 1^st grade students. We decided to have a race between four teams in our classroom with our 'dinosaur/aniamal' Travel Bugs. We can trace their whereabouts on geocaching.com.

All travel bugs started on Dec. 2013 in Indiana. They were left at various ‘travel bug hotels’.

A group of 4 students share a travel bug. They were responsible for naming it and are responsible for tracking its location on a map.  In the end, we will see which group’s travel bug goes the farthest (total distance traveled in miles) by May 1^st, 2014. As geocachers find our travel bugs, they will log their location informing us where the bug is now! We’re excited to see where they may go. Even though our contest will end, we hope our bugs will continue to travel!

Each student group has 2 travel bugs-one is a rubber ducky; the other is a dinosaur (or thought to have been when we started).  Bugs often go ‘missing’, so we are hoping this will help with the disappointment of that matter.

We would especially love for you to take and post pictures of you with our travel bugs when you find one!  We would like our bugs to travel to many states, state capitals, national or state parks and any other famous landmarks or statues.  It would also be fun for our travel bugs to have their picture taken with an animal or someone famous!

THANK YOU for logging our dinosaur/animal travel bugs!!  Thank you also for carrying it to a new location asap!

              Happy Caching !

Mrs. C/K’s 1^st graders at CRES

Here are all the travel bugs in our class competition if you would like to find others!

TEAM A-

TB5HM64   Capt. Squeaks  (rubber ducky)

TB5HM64   Capt. T-Rex

TEAM B-

TB5HM5P   Bobby Duck

TB5KJAA   Christmas Tail (dinosaur)

TEAM C-

TB5HM5B   Capt. Eyesight (rubber ducky)

TB5HM5A    Spikeback (dinosaur-like animal)

TEAM D-

TB5KJAD   Sleepy Duck

TB5HM59   Hoey Din (anteater)

Hoey Din is owned by TEAM D. This grey plastic animal is actually a model of an anteater.  Originally, we thought it was a dinosaur.  Then, we looked closer. We learned from National Geographic that “anteaters are edentate animals--they have no teeth. But their long tongues are more than sufficient to lap up the 35,000 ants and termites they swallow whole each day. The anteater uses its sharp claws to tear an opening into an anthill and put its long snout and efficient tongue to work. But it has to eat quickly, flicking its tongue up to 160 times per minute. Ants fight back with painful stings, so an anteater may spend only a minute feasting on each mound. Anteaters never destroy a nest, preferring to return and feed again in the future.  These animals find their quarry not by sight—theirs is poor—but by smell. Different species range from the size of a squirrel to 7 feet. Anteaters are not aggressive but they can be fierce animals and can fight off even a puma or jaguar if they feel cornered.” They are solitary mammals who live in South and Central America.