We have baby animal news from the Friendly Fox class this morning. Lydia has hatched baby chicks over at her house. I think they had 13 eggs in their incubator. It must be so exciting for a chicken lover to have this many babies. Remember how many days she sat on her nest outside?
What kind of baby animals do you want to talk about today. I was thinking of this one.
Do you know where giraffes live? Africa. Here’s a story I love to read in the Honeybee class about counting animals in Africa. You can learn to count in Swahili. Do you remember that some people speak in different languages? In Africa there are 2000 different languages.
When a baby giraffe is born it is already six feet tall. That is about the height of your dad. A giraffe is considered an adult when it is four years old. If you were a giraffe you’d be a grownup!
Giraffes need to be tall because their main food is the leaves of the acacia tree. They also have tongues that are 18 inches long. Their long tongues help them eat the leaves while avoiding the giant thorns. Those long necks help them reach up high, and the giraffe’s neck only has seven vertebrae. Would you like to see an x ray of a giraffe’s neck?
With a little help I think you could make a giraffe.
Would you like to read a silly story about a giraffe?
Here’s a cool STEAM project you can easily do at home that creates the giraffe’s skin pattern with capillary action, the ability of a liquid to flow in tiny spaces. The process creates the giraffe’s skin pattern.
http://preschoolpowolpackets.blogspot.com/2016/06/giraffe-science-experiment.html
Wynne has done this experiment on large sheets of absorbent paper that she cut out in a giraffe shape. You can use a paintbrush with liquid watercolor, a pipette, or an eyedropper. Did you know that every giraffe skin is different?
Here’s a giraffe song for you.
Put your hands in the air Garden Children. Wherever you are we wish you well.
