A Homeschool Day in the Sun at the Zoo

Sometimes we just need to put the books aside and remind ourselves why we home school. Well, one of the reasons we home school, flexibility.
Today my husband took off of work and we slept in (we all really needed it before the Easter holiday hits) and then went to the Philadelphia Zoo as they were offering discount tickets and free parking!
Unfortunately, my daughter still hasn't seen an elephant in person. We've been to three. But she did get to learn that they are endangered by the graph they used to show the dwindling numbers. They had two tubes set up. One side was filled with tons of little elephants showing the numbers from years past. On the right was a similar tube and to see how many little elephants are in there you have to look under the table. That's a really hard lesson to learn for a 8 year old. How we as humans destroy the environment that God has given us. How we take advantage of our surroundings sometimes (and when I say we here I'm not referring to any particular person, haha, long story). When we studied South America we took a really in depth look at the endangered species of the Rain Forest. I think seeing the tube really helped! I do have a picture somewhere and when I get to it I will add it to this blog. It is definitely something that could be reproduced in the home.
The weather today was a warm as I can handle it being so I am very happy we took the time to get outside after all this rain we have had.