Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

The Royal Winter Fair offers SO many learning opportunities. Kaylin and Jasmine enjoyed tasting different foods and drinks; seeing animals, demonstrations and products from around the country; touching animals, leather, feathers and fur; smelling animals and food; and hearing the sounds of people and animals at a country fair, ~including hearing bugs munching on potato plant leaves!!

The letter of the week is “Uu” for unusual animals!

On April 13, Creature Quest came to Olivet to provide an interactive animal experience. Our Playschool and Kindergarten students had an opportunity to view, learn, touch and ask questions about a variety of animals. Our animal visitors included the following; Amphibians (frog, salamander), Arthropods (crab, millipede), Mammal (rabbit) and Reptiles (snake, lizard, turtle). Our brave and willing students demonstrated patience, respect and curiosity as each species was introduced by our presenters.

We travelled the globe learning interesting facts on habitat, species characteristics, and diet before we had an opportunity to hold or touch each animal. Our presenter fed meal worms to the box turtle and salamander... with a few exclamations of wow and yuk!

The class favourites were; Super Bunny Burger King for softness, Dr. Jeckles the Halloween Crab for ticklish legs, and Freckles the Hog Nosed Snake for a tight squeeze, and Hinge the Eastern Box Turtle for snapping up the meal worm!

The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

Friday November 13 was a lucky day for us! We went to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair! We got there at about 9:30 in the morning. We watched the Super-Dogs perform, cows being milked and cows and horses being judged. We listened to different experts teach us about everything from farming to energy conservation; we answered questions and picked up colouring books and fridge magnets. We tasted different food and drink, we felt skins, feathers, fur and more. We smelled food and animals. We heard the sheep bleat and the cows moo. At one point we saw a nervous horse and heard it snort and whinny in a way that made us all a little bit afraid! It was a wonderful day. Have a look at some of our photos!