Our animal encounter today was with an albino Nelsons Milk Snake named Novel this morning, and it was really neat to observe her quirky behaviours and learn about how she constricts her prey. We got to observe and touch some python jaws and scales as well as we were learning about snakes. This afternoon we had a talk with a reindeer expert about these fascinating animals, and she brought them out to the garden so we could get up close to them and watch them forage for food and assert themselves with their antlers. We also got to touch the velvet on one of their old antlers. At the end of the day groups got to explore the zoo, so we enjoyed hearing the arctic wolf howl, seeing the gibbon show of his teeth, watch the Goeldi's monkeys play, and observe the red pandas playing with each other. We can't wait to learn more tomorrow!
What an exciting day we had to kick of Zoo School! We met our educator Anna who we'll learn lots from over the course of the week. The zoo was closed to the public today, so we had it all to ourselves, and many of the animals seemed extra comfortable showing off some entertaining antics with so few people there. Students have been placed into five different groups for our week at the zoo, so each group has been assigned to become experts on either the lynx, lemurs, seals, meerkats, or gibbon over the course of the week. The groups closely observed and took notes on their animals today, and they'll continue to do that over the course of the week. The lynx group got to see the lynx eat some fresh quail, the lemur group got to observe them socializing, the seal group heard some very vocal "screaming," the meerkat group noticed them exploring and cozying up in their bed, and the gibbon group witnessed some very dramatic "singing" and energetic swinging around his habitat. Our animal encounter today was with an albino Nelsons Milk Snake named Novel this morning, and it was really neat to observe her quirky behaviours and learn about how she constricts her prey. We got to observe and touch some python jaws and scales as well as we were learning about snakes. This afternoon we had a talk with a reindeer expert about these fascinating animals, and she brought them out to the garden so we could get up close to them and watch them forage for food and assert themselves with their antlers. We also got to touch the velvet on one of their old antlers. At the end of the day groups got to explore the zoo, so we enjoyed hearing the arctic wolf howl, seeing the gibbon show of his teeth, watch the Goeldi's monkeys play, and observe the red pandas playing with each other. We can't wait to learn more tomorrow! Comments are closed.
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Mrs. BarkerMrs. Barker is a grade three teacher at Millgrove School. She loves science and reading, and lives in a little brick house with Mr. Barker and her kids Jack and Ellie. Archive
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