Ms. Gourgiotis' Class Valley Walk

On Thursday October 4th Ms. Gourgiotis' class went for a walk to the local valley.  Ms. Hammond's class brought back a snail when they went on their valley trip on Tuesday and we wondered what we would find in the valley? 

We noticed the beautiful leaves changing colours.

 

We decided to bring magnifying glasses and one of the students even suggested we bring a flashlight to see if we could find some snails in the soil.  Ms. Hammond's class found empty shells by the sumac trees but we did not find any.

We continued walking towards the wooded area by the river and we saw worms and birds' nests and we even found a snail, and then we found more and more and more!! We found ALOT of snails!!!  We were so excited.





Here we are looking for snails.

 Below are some of the snails we found.

                   

                                     

 We even found a slug!!  Some students thought it was a snail but it did not have a shell!  We concluded that it must be a slug since it didn't have a shell.



As we were leaving the valley we were excited to see a bunny rabbit!!!



We brought our snails and slug back to the classroom and needed to create a habitat for them to live in.  Here is what our classroom snail and slug habitat looks like now:



I want to thank Aaron's mom, Shaheer's mom, Faizaan's mom, and Khadija's mom for volunteering to come with us on our walk. Your help was appreciated very much!