May 2019 Foster Care Special Edition
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ENVISION EQUITY MAY <strong>2019</strong><br />
doctors’ appointments. The students seemed to have a wonderful time and learned a lot.<br />
The differences in the pre and post tests were outstanding and showed remarkable<br />
improvement.<br />
On Monday, the first day of camp, the students learned about chimpanzees and Jane<br />
Goodall. They were taught, to their amazement, that chimpanzees’ DNA is 98% the same as<br />
humans and that they can use tools. Students practiced how chimpanzees use sticks during<br />
snack when they were given pretzel sticks, WOW butter and chocolate chips to simulate a<br />
chimpanzee using a stick to catch ants.<br />
Tuesday the focus was<br />
gorillas. Did you know that<br />
gorillas have distinct prints<br />
on their nose that enable<br />
them to be identified, like<br />
our fingerprints? They took<br />
turns in the ape cut out<br />
measuring up to the gorillas!<br />
Wednesday was all about<br />
orangutans, which are only<br />
found in Borneo and<br />
Sumatra, two islands in<br />
southeast Asia. The two<br />
islands were used as<br />
answers to a bonus<br />
question. If they all<br />
answered correctly, they<br />
received a special snack. All<br />
of the students got to enjoy<br />
an ice cream sandwich for<br />
their hard work.<br />
Thursday the students got to<br />
learn about colobus<br />
monkeys, the newest exhibit<br />
at the Louisville Zoo, and found out they can eat poisonous plants! The new exhibit was<br />
enjoyed by the students and they were excited to see the monkeys playing overhead.<br />
Friday’s primate was the lemur, which are considered to be one of the most endangered<br />
animals in the world because they only come from Madagascar and a very small set of<br />
nearby islands.<br />
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