Hi,
We visited elephants in Tennessee today! We had a video-conference with a scientist from the Elephant Sanctuary. We began researching elephants at the sanctuary after reading the book, The One and Only Ivan. The book is told from a gorilla's point of view about his life in the circus mall with a performing elephant. Ivan helps the animals find homes in a zoo with other animals. We then started discussing and researching pros and cons of zoos and wrote persuasively about zoos using info from our research. While I was researching, I found the elephant sanctuary website and inquired about their e-learning program.
The kids chose an elephant from the sanctuary and learned about her. They took notes and wrote their questions and some did posters and powerpoints. We've been watching the elephants on the elephant cam at the sanctuary also.
Today, we met with Mr. Montgomery through our video cam and saw videos and information about the elephants and asked him lots of questions. We heard many interesting and amusing stories about the specific elephants and ended up having to switch our lunch time quickly because our 30 minutes conference lasted 80 minutes! It was wonderful. Ask your child about their favorite part and what they learned about helping and caring for all animals.
Mrs. Korfanta featured our class on her blog. http://forestcreekcoyotech.blogspot.com/
Check it out!
Tomorrow, we have an architect coming to speak with us about his job and how he uses all academic areas as well as interpersonal skills at work. It will be fun!
More excitement to come on Thursday!
Sincerely,
Pam
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