Groups lend a hand to teachers with classroom pets
Pets in class
In this Sept. 11, 2012, photo, Hailey Fink gets acquainted with a corn snake in the first grade classroom of Dawn Slinger in Farmington, Minn. Experts say many children who have mastered video games before entering first grade have never even had a starter pet. Maryland-based Pets in the Classroom project is offering grants to help teachers pay for pets, cages, tanks and supplies of food. It issued its 10,000th grant this summer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Pets In School
In this Sept. 11, 2012, photo, Alecia Gundy, left, reaches as teacher Dawn Slinger hands her a gecko and classmate Ava Hand looks on in their first grade classroom in Farmington, Minn. Slinger chooses the animals because they fascinate children, their temperaments are right and they don't bother students with allergies or asthma, she says. Maryland-based Pets in the Classroom project is offering grants to help teachers pay for pets, cages, tanks and supplies of food. It issued its 10,000th grant this summer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Dawn Slinger, Ben Januschka
In this Sept. 11, 2012, photo, principal Ben Januschka and Jayvon Maternowski share hold of a corn snake in the first grade classroom of Dawn Slinger, background left, in Farmington, Minn. Slinger chooses the animals because they fascinate children, their temperaments are right and they don't bother students with allergies or asthma, she says. Maryland-based Pets in the Classroom project is offering grants to help teachers pay for pets, cages, tanks and supplies of food. It issued its 10,000th grant this summer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Pets In School
In this Sept. 11, 2012, photo, a tortoise walks onto the coloring project of a tortoise by Gavin Thoen in the first grade classroom of Dawn Slinger in Farmington, Minn. When the school year is over, each student's work becomes a book. Maryland-based Pets in the Classroom project is offering grants to help teachers pay for pets, cages, tanks and supplies of food. It issued its 10,000th grant this summer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Pets In School
In this Sept. 11, 2012, photo, Rhyen Miska, left, and Dillon Wolfe take notes as they observe frogs and toads in the first grade classroom of Dawn Slinger in Farmington, Minn. Students watch, research, draw and write about the animals as they journal their observations. Maryland-based Pets in the Classroom project is offering grants to help teachers pay for pets, cages, tanks and supplies of food. It issued its 10,000th grant this summer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Pets in class
In this Sept. 11, 2012, photo, first-grader Tanner Rezny, left, holds an albino bull python while classmate Sam Illetschko holds a bumble bee ball python in the first grade classroom of Dawn Slinger in Farmington, Minn. Their teacher builds science, writing and reading lessons around a number of different animals. Maryland-based Pets in the Classroom project is offering grants to help teachers pay for pets, cages, tanks and supplies of food. It issued its 10,000th grant this summer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Pets In School
In this Sept. 11, 2012, photo, Dawn Slinger welcomes visitors to her first grade classroom in Farmington, Minn. Teachers like Slinger have been introducing pets to first-graders for a quarter century. Maryland-based Pets in the Classroom project has lightened the load by offering grants to help teachers pay for pets, cages, tanks and supplies of food. It issued its 10,000th grant this summer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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