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LEARNING IS FUN -
Especially in May at the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve
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Fun
"Birdo" means covering up four squares in a row.
Learning
We practiced identifying birds that live at Leonora Curtin and their food and habitat.
Fun
"We're goin' on a snake hunt and I'm not afraid"
Learning
It was a pretend snake hunt but we learned that a coachwhip snake can go as fast as 4 miles per hour on its belly and might live in a burrow or even climb a tree.
Fun
One juniper has berries and the other makes you sneeze.
Learning
We learned that the male juniper produces pollen in the spring and that the female juniper has blue berries.
Fun
It's a "dead" sunflower.
Learning
We learned what part of the flower the sunflower seeds come from and that their seeds are developed after the blooms are spent. Then we each got a packet of the giant sunflower seeds to take home and plant.
Third graders from Piñon Elementary and Turquoise Trail Elementary Charter School learned all this, plus:

Horsetail plants were around during the Jurassic era, and then they were as big as trees.

Groups of Cottonwood trees are always found near water.

The two things birds have that no other animal has are feathers and a wishbone.

Red-winged Blackbirds love cattails and nest among them.

If you want to learn how to use binoculars, you focus on the object you want to see more closely and then raise the binoculars up to your eyes.

Sometimes you can see a duck’s nest at the edge of the water.
Photos from Janice Tucker

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