Our Parks and Wildlife Incursion

On Tuesday 13  June 1/2 Sandhu, 1/2 Lincolne/Parker and 1/2 Taylor/Huizing had a visit from Lou and Keith from Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife.

One half of our class went with Mrs Lincolne’s class, and the other half went with Mrs Taylor’s class. We did some different activities about living things.

One group went to Mrs Taylor’s room with Lou, we learned about Tasmanian Native Animals. Lou taught us about Tasmanian Devils. We learnt that they have backwards pouches for their babies because they dig holes and they don’t want get dirt in their pouches. Lou told us that Tasmanian Devil babies are the size of a grain of rice and only two survive from twenty! Lou also taught us about venomous animals, we talked about snakes, spiders and male platypus. We got to touch some snakes that were mounted on a board. There was a white lipped snake, tiger snake and a copper head snake.

In Mrs Lincolne's classroom, we were learning about Water Bugs! Keith had collected some water from a waterway and pond near him. We went into groups and we used spoons and magnifying glasses and tried to find different living things in the water he collected. We learned that some water bugs like clean water and some like dirty water, this helps scientists know about how clean or dirty water is. We looked that some bugs we found through a microscope. After some close searching we found lots of water bugs.

In the afternoon we all went together into Mrs Lincolne’s room and had a talk about the similarities and differences between water bugs and the native animals. We also looked at the different national parks in Tasmania.

We had a great day with the other Year 1s and 2s, Lou and Keith.