In-between Days

20 Humboldt Penguins
1 African Spurred Tortoise
7 Meercats
1 Patagonian Mara
7 Ring-tailed Lemurs
2 Black and White Ruffed Lemurs
11 Wallabies (maybe more as they had newborn joeys we couldn't see)
3 Maneless Zebras
2 Valais Black-nosed Sheep
2 Kune Kune Pigs

All seen today in the peak district.

Ferdy asked to do a numbers day today. I mentioned a little in the last blog about those in-between doing things moments, where we often seem to get quite a lot of learning or chatting done. These moments often happen when we're on our way to somewhere, waiting for something, or sometimes when we are bored or not really doing very much.

Before 10am we: counted to 100 in 10s; found a missing numbers sheet to complete; watched some videos about the 10 times table; thought of words using the digraph ng... And then played Star Wars for an hour.

Sean Bean's brill King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table was our entertainment in the car on the way to Peak Wildlife Park, and Ferdy also pointed out that king ends in ng.

tl-r clockwise: a Valais Black-nosed Sheep; Ring-tailed Lemurs (inside because the weather
was horrid); tortoise eating lettuce (can we have a tortoise please?); penguin feeding time.

The weather wasn't very nice but we were able to find (and count) quite a lot of the animals and the bonus of not nice weather is that we often get places all to ourselves. The park keepers helped us to find animals and we were even invited to join in with the Kune Kune pigs' daily walk. A tired, hungry and hurting legged Ferdy was suddenly able to race the pigs through the nature walk and around the perimeter of the whole park..

Blue gloves and Kune Kune pigs Oatcake and Potter

Over lunch we drew pictures of volcanoes and talked about how quickly you'd die if you climbed a volcano when it was erupting, and whether it would be possible to build some steps up a volcano. We do have the best conversations on Fridays.