This past Thursday, the grade fours and fives went to MacSkimming at Forest Edge. They had many fun activities planed for us. The grade fours were focusing on habitats and the grade fives were working on mapping grounds.
The grade fours started of by playing a really fun game called Predator and Prey. The whole class really enjoyed it even the teachers and parent volunteers got involved. The class split up into three kinds of consumers [herbivores, omnivores and carnivores]. The adults got to play the role of poachers, natural disasters and minivans! Owen had a little too much fun getting to hunt all the consumers!
After playing Predator and Prey we did a salamander search. Our instructor at MacSkimming, Marni, told us that salamanders live in damp areas under logs. Salamanders are unique because they have such small habitats. They spend their whole life within a 2 meter area. We found salamanders, toads, frogs, millipedes and lots of fun!
After a quick lunch we went to the wetlands dock to catch a whole bunch of aquatic creatures. Things that we found included: tadpoles, predacious diving beetles, leeches, water spiders and much more.
We also had a chance to catch some other creatures. We went into an open field with lots of tall grass and used big butterfly nets to catch lots of insects. Before heading into the field, Martha transformed into a giant insect with wings, compound eyes, a thorax and antennae.
We want to say a big thank you to all the parent volunteers and to our great instructor, Marni.
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