After spending the first few weeks of May learning about animals and what their babies are called, Mrs. K's class and Mrs. Mathis' class got to see in person the animals they had been learning about.
Zootastic Park is located in Troutman, NC and is a privately owned, interactive, educational zoo. They offered our classes an educational show that included several animals, a wagon ride where we could feed some animals, a lovely picnic area to eat our lunch, and the opportunity to see the various animal exhibits at our leisure.
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Here is our group before the show began!
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During the show we were able to learn about several animals. Our classes got to see and pet a baby kangaroo (a joey!). We got to see a corn snake, 2 baby lemurs (pups!), a ferret, a baby tiger (cub!) drinking out of a bottle, a cockatoo, a baby alligator (a hatchling!), a baby
kinkajou, and I'm probably missing something, but I think that was it.
After the show we all got on a covered wagon and each child was handed a cup of animal feed. Our tour guide gave us lots of information about each animal as we saw them during the wagon ride.
Once we parked the wagon, we took a break for lunch at some picnic tables. After we all finished eating, we took some time to walk around the facilities and got to see lots of really cool animals.
A gibbon!
A kangaroo
One of our students feeding some goats.
Our trip to Zootastic was nothing short of fantastic.
We had so much fun and would love to go back in the future.
