Monday, July 18, 2011

Habitats

Our preschool class just finished a section on habitats.  We learned about different animals of the rain forest, the ocean and the desert.  We found out that there are 4 layers in the rain forest: emergent, canopy, understory, and the forest floor.  The ocean has different types of animals at the surface, in the open ocean, and on the ocean floor.  And the desert has both nocturnal (night time) and diurnal (day time) animals.  Our class also got to taste several different foods from each habitat, some of which we hadn't ever tried before.  Mango and bananas were two of our favorites from the rain forest, but the peppers were not a big hit.  We really liked the crab, and salmon from the ocean but not many liked the seaweed.  The desert had some interesting foods, feta cheese and figs were the favorites, but dates surprisingly were not.