{"id":3357,"date":"2017-10-09T19:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T02:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2017-10-09T19:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T02:21:37","slug":"aquarium-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2017\/10\/09\/aquarium-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquarium Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the primary students visited the <strong>Vancouver Aquarium<\/strong>.&nbsp; The purpose of the trip was to build a better understanding of the natural world, including its oceans.&nbsp; After all, ninety-six percent of all of Earth&#8217;s water is ocean.&nbsp; It was hoped that the Vancouver Aquarium would&nbsp; inspire the children to build emotional connections to the marine animals and their habitats, and as a result, these connections would encourage respect and care for the environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the Aquarium<\/strong>, we saw sharks, moray eels, jellyfish and colorful fish; sleeping sloths, snakes, parrots and lizards.&nbsp; We watched a 4-D movie about ocean predators and a dolphin training session.&nbsp; We laughed at the frolicking African penguins, playful Stellar sea lions, and hungry feeding otters.&nbsp; Finally, we gently patted the rays swimming in the touch pool.&nbsp; The children left the Aquarium with lots of questions which we will try to answer in the weeks to come.[metaslider id=3360]<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all the parent volunteers who enabled this wonderful trip to take place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the primary students visited the Vancouver Aquarium.&nbsp; The purpose of the trip was to build a better understanding of the natural world, including its oceans.&nbsp; After all, ninety-six percent of all of Earth&#8217;s water is ocean.&nbsp; It was hoped that the Vancouver Aquarium<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2017\/10\/09\/aquarium-visit\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}