Today we had an amazing opportunity to visit Fish Creek Provincial Park! Students had the chance to go on a scavenger hunt outside as part of a small group with the teacher or a parent volunteer. Some groups saw white tail deer, weasels, two kinds of woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches, squirrels and a hawk. One of our students found an old wasp nest. There was also a cave and an area where we saw conglomerate rock. This is a type of rock existed before dinosaurs!
We didn't just see animals.... we lots of different types of vegetation. Lichen, moss, poplar trees, chokecherry bushes, Saskatoon berry, Dogwood bushes (identified by it's red bark). Half of the field was also inside the interpretive centre. This was a chance for students to take a walk back in time, looking at the first people (Plaines First Nations), to John Glenn and Adelaide Belcourt (the first European settler), Willam Roper Hull built the a homestead costing $4000 (which was a lot of money at the time considering most homes cost $6 to build), then we met Pat Burns who took over the ranch from Willam Roper Hull. Students heard all types of stories.... from oral story telling traditions of the First Nations people, to the ghost story of "Charlie" (who was one of the cooks at the ranch house). Students sketched, asked questions and learned lots of interesting facts about our amazing province!! Ask your child about what they learned today :) A special thank you to the parent volunteers that joined us and made this field trip possible!
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