More Wetland Animals, Food Webs, Strategy Games and Parachute Fun!
/The Whales got to hear more presentations from our wetland animal experts this week. We have been looking at the special characteristics that our animals have that help them survive in their habitat. We did some big exploration of food webs in the wetland ecosystem and discovered that plants are even MORE powerful than we originally thought. As one Whale remarked, “Plants are just almost better and stronger than anything - they make their OWN FOOD!”
In addition, Whales have been completing some amazing scientific illustrations of their wetland animals, noticing the tiniest details in shape, color and form. We’ll post a photo of their completed work next week.
We ended our week playing strategy games like Checkers and Tic-Tac-Toe. We talked about the concept of strategy, and agreed that if you are using strategy, you have to think before you do - and that means using your prefrontal cortex!
Our last activity on Friday was some surprise parachute play out under the trees in the quad. We had so much fun working together to make the parachute go uuup and dooown, each Whale taking their turn under the vibrant and magical colors of the parachute. What fun!
