Nature at Night

This evening students learned about nature at night. They played a bat and moth game, where a student is blindfolded in the forest (as the "blind bat"), and another student has a container with rocks. The child with the rock is the "moth" and it is simulating echolocation, the method of hunting used by bats. The bat tries to "locate" and grab his dinner just by the sound of the container with rocks. The kids had a great time with this game and each enjoyed being the bat or moth.

The kids also learned about rods and cones in their eyes. They had colored construction paper and they had to write what color they thought they had. Well, as you can figure, human eyes have a difficult time distinguishing colors at night. Ask you child about why pirates had a patch over one eye when they get home, because many groups looked at a lit candle during a story in the woods while covering one eye. After the story was over, the candle was blown out. The eye that was uncovered has difficulty seeing in the dark, however, the eye that was covered by your hand can easily see in the darkness! Fun activity!

No student video tonight because it was too dark to film. But I will leave you a video of a "prayer". And now, like the candle being blown out in the pirate activity, the lights are out here at Ferry Beach. A very busy Day 2 has come to a close.