Otters! Zoo Project Week 2

Each week leading up to our special Zoo School Week, we will be studying an animal at the Edmonton Valley Zoo! Our weekly activities are focused around reading and understanding fiction and non-fiction, tackling math challenges, sketching and labelling, and more!

Graphic via Not Nerdy

This week we got to know a whole lot more about otters! We enjoyed learning more about river otters at National Geographic Kids. Our zoo has some amazing river otters, and after learning more about them, we are really excited to see them during our week at the zoo in April! 

Otters are fascinating! Did you know they hold hands when they sleep, so they don't float away from one another? They also use their tummy as a plate and a rock as a utensil when they eat! Otters are incredibly playful as well, just like us!

We sorted words by the short o sound, which is the sound we hear at the beginning of the word "otter". 

We made patterns with the foods otters enjoy eating!

Using our observational skills, we looked at a photo of an otter and took time to sketch in our journals, looking for shapes, adding details, and including labels.  

What animal might we be examining next week? Take an early sneak peek ... you can read more about it here!