Cutting to the chase, we did something fun this week!
We've been waiting for a long time to go to the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium. I had my reservations, being that we're a land locked, desert mountain state. But was thoroughly convinced that it's well worth the visit. We all got so much from it but one detail won me over. One of the aquarium 'guides', for lack of a better term, explained that one of the Aquariums goals is to teach about not only aquatic life, but ecosystems. She added that all ecosystems revolve around their water sources, making it appropriate to teach about all of
the ecosystems throughout the world.
While I was enthralled with the 2 toed sloth, the kids were entranced by the swimming penguins.
Each of the kids was assigned to choose an animal to write about or draw over the next few days. Ada has been talking in co-op about writing focused paragraphs and different forms of adding details and information to a piece of writing. So this fits in well with her assignment. Nahuel on the other hand, will be asked to either write a poem about an animal, or use one in the introduction to a story. To say
the least, there's so much more
than science that will come out of our visit.
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