Winter Wonder

Captain Powder came to school today and taught us all about the Wild Winter Wonderland we live in!  We had so much fun learning about Winter and how animals hibernate, migrate, or tolerate.  We practiced hibernating like the bears, bats, and turtles.  We talked about the geese, cranes, and eagles that migrate.  We even learned about how deer, elk, chickadees, and humans tolerate the winter by growing thick coats, huddling together, dressing warm, and doing fun activities in the snow!  We compared how Canadian and Himalayan people dress for the cold winters!

We played snowshoe hare tag and learned how the snowshoe hare grows white fur in winter and can run on top of the snow.  We also learned about the Lynx being one of the snowshoe hares top predators.

Captain Powder explained how lucky we are to live in a place where we have three wild cats in the area, the cougar, bobcat, and lynx.  He also informed us about how humans can effect nature in negative ways like the Mountain Caribou which are becoming extinct due to logging of the old growth forests.

We learned so much about our beautiful home and have realized how cool Winter really is!