Happy the Hamster, Our Classroom Pet

Happy the Hamster is a Roborovski dwarf. She has been a member of our classroom for several months now. Happy is crepuscular and is up and about during dawn and dusk. Much to the kids' dismay, this means that Happy is asleep during school hours. If Happy happens to be awake when the kids come to school in the morning, they take out their free writing journals to write and draw what they see Happy doing. The kids' love watching Happy eat, run on her wheel, and climb up her tunnel to her loft.