Saturday, January 30, 2010

Kinder-Zoo and Phoenix Zoo

Gracie's kindergarten class just finished a unit on animals, so to celebrate, they had a Kinder-Zoo program where the kids all dressed up as monkeys, lions, zebras, giraffes, tigers and elephants. Then they got in their "cages" and their parents got to feed them snacks. This was very cute, I thought, and fun. Things I didn't experience when I taught Jr. High :-)

Our lion had the sun in her eyes


family trip to the real zoo - this is the new species of stone-colored, two-headed turtle


their rendition of when Ariel's supposed to come
out of the shell in The Little Mermaid

Our zoo recently acquired Komodo dragons, but 2 of the 3 times
we've been, he's been in his "nighthouse" because it's been
too cold for him to be outside. Did you know they have 50 different
kinds of bacteria in their mouths plus a venom that puts their prey
into shock as they then start to gnaw on their dinner. Yikes! g

You may recall my Facebook status from a couple of weeks ago. Hope and I fed the giraffes, but alas I did not have my camera. So, we took a family trip to the zoo today and all fed giraffes. Their tongues are 18 inches long and quite fuzzy. It was fun!
Hope fed this one some lettuce.



Lettuce from Gracie







2 comments:

The Johnsons said...

I LOVE that the kids are in cages! Your lion is a charmer.

Kimmer said...

Looks like fun! Jealous of the nice weather to go to the zoo. Love seeing the new pictures of your cutie kids!