On Friday,  Year 3 children were introduced to a menagerie of interesting and unusual animals by Charlie from Zoolab. This formed part of our Amazing Animals theme and enabled the children to see up-close examples of some of the different animal groups we have been learning about in class. The children were fascinated by a variety of different creatures, such as an African Land Snail, a Rock Python, an Amazon Tree Frog, a Tarantula, a couple of Desert Rats and a Giant Cockroach. 

They were able to get up close and personal with the animals being able to hold and stroke them. Our students answered and asked some great questions about the adaptations and lives of these amazing specimens.

Among the unbelievable facts that they found out were that frogs actually use their eyeballs to help them swallow their food, snakes shed their skins in order to grow and a snail has 20,000 teeth!

All the children thoroughly enjoyed their exotic encounters.