Final Beardsley Zoo class till the spring

This time the younger class got the good teacher. She still has problems with watching the time though and always ends up spending too much time on the lecture portion and having to run through the activity. E got to touch another snake this week during the lecture.

The fun activity today was going through those cool "staff only" doors. This time around we got to see the zoo keepers preparing all the food for the animals. We got to see them cutting up fish and meat for some of the carnivores, and veggies for some of the herbivores. Both age groups got to see this at different points.

They also got to go into the basement and check out what was in the freezers. Yes, we got to see lots of different bags filled with different sized frozen mice. It was really cool. I'm so glad I'm a chaperone and I get to do this too.

The younger kids got to prepare the food for the bison and deer. They had big garbage cans full of food (the dry stuff like they have in the candy machines to buy to feed in the petting zoo) and the kids had to measure the food into buckets for breakfast the next day. They had to weigh the food to precise amounts, since they are very strict with the amounts the animals eat. R says the older kids did the same thing for the farm animals. He loves getting to hang out with the two boys he's gotten to be friends with in this and the White Memorial class.