Amazing Arthropods Zoo Class...

 We love going to homeschool zoo classes!  This time the kids learned about and got to touch a tarantula, a lobster, and giant hissing cockroaches!

L was very brave and pet the lobster!

Everyone made a paper plate lobster project to take home.

Rain Forest Zoo Class

This week's zoo class was all about the rain forest.  We learned about the different layers (the forest floor, the canopy, and the emergent layer), we got to see and touch several different rain forest animals and learned about which part they live in.

 This is Joe the Hyacinth Macaw...isn't he beautiful? We learned that he lives in the emergent layer of the rain forest.

K holding the giant hissing cockroaches... (they live on the forest floor).

This is a rainbow boa constrictor...up to more mischief, he took the zoo teacher's keys out of her pocket!  I'm pretty sure this is the same naughty snake that bit the zoo keeper here, but fortunately he had better behavior today.  :)

Last, we made rain forest flowers out of paper and then we made a "rain forest web" with string to show how all the different things that live in the rain forest are connected and important to each other.