Sarah, an environmental educator from Bonnyvale environmental Education Center, came to our class to teach about winter survival. We discussed what animals need to survive: water, food, shelter, and space. We learned about four different strategies animals use to find the things they need to survive: migration (like a hummingbird), hibernation (like a little brown bat), staying active (like a red fox), or sleep-awake (animals that do not truly hibernate but occasionally wake throughout the winter such as raccoons and bears.)
After we learned about these different strategies, we headed outside to "become" animals that stay active in the winter. For example, we pretended to be chickadees looking for food in the bark of trees and water in the stream and we pretended to be foxes curled up and sleeping in a den.
Sarah will return soon to teach us about how to find signs of these animals that stay active in the winter!
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