Thursday, April 29, 2010

A Visit to the Pond

On Tuesday, April 27, as part of science week at Gilbert, we visited the pond and the Bug Mobile. At the pond, Mrs. Long taught us about food chains and food webs. While we were there, we noticed a new face at Gilbert. We saw this white bird! He showed up on Monday. We think he may be someone's pet as he seemed very comfortable around people. He let me walk right up to him to snap his picture. In my pictures, it appeared he only had one leg. However after talking with Mrs. Sandow, we discovered he's fine. He just had the other one hidden. My students were worried about the little guy! We also observed the Koi and gar fish that reside in the pond. We tried to spot the turtle we had heard that's moved in recently. He proved elusive! Check out our photos!