Day 22

Today, we learned about animals that live in colder water regions. We went and saw the penguins, prairie dogs, river otters, and bald eagles today. We also fed the goats this morning. Animal presenter brought the tiger salamander and an African centipede today. I spent a lot of time today cutting out pieces for the craft project of the day as the animal presentation was going on. We had some parts ready this morning before the kids came, but we caught up eventually. Today's craft was a penguin. We traced our feet on construction paper to use as the base of the penguins body and head. Then, we added wings, a beak, and eyes.

When we went to see the Magellan Penguins, we did the chicken dance for a bit, which some of the kids really got into and enjoyed. I love doing these random dances in the zoo, although this time, there weren't visitors out wondering about just yet, so we did not look like an exhibit this time haha

We had a little time before we wanted to head down to lunch, so we made a big circle, and I started the hokey pokey: animal style. We put our claws, wings, feet, tentacles, bellies, noses, heads, tails, booties, and whole selves in and out. As you can tell, I kept adding them to keep it going. Remember we did rights and lefts for some of them. Lots of verses haha, but the kids kept going with me... not once did they say last verset yet? That's one thing I like about our group this week, they really get into the dancing with me. I love watching them and shaking right along with them, and they all just smile as they watch me lead.

 
After lunch, we helped some enrichment ice treats for the education animals. We put together little fruit cups, which they were going to add water to later and freeze them. Then, it was 1:00, and time to send most of our campers home.

This afternoon, I played some Zooreka with our full day campers, we watched the penguins get fed, we went through the Discovery Center again, played some lily pad bean bag toss, played the bullfrog game, and a little sharks and minnows. I forgot to mention yesterday that as we walked past the camels yesterday with our full day campers that they actually stopped, asked the camel boy a few questions, and learned about the camels, which are named Molly, Cotton, and Candy... and for those of you who are wondering out there, that hump is not a big water storage container on the camel; it's actually fat.