elephants, elephants

We can't seem to get elephants off of our minds...so I read a book about elephants and the kids went wild writing facts they learned! Challenge your child to tell you 10 facts...I bet they could!

I promised (especially to SK) to put some elephant links on the blog...so here they are: There is the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. They even have a live "EleCam" best seen during the day and stories about each of their elephants that live there. There is Riddles Elephant Sanctuary in Arkansas that has more stories about their elephants and you can even adopt an elephant! ER was especially loved that there are sanctuaries available to old circus and zoo elephants that need a place to retire. Check out this amazing footage of elephants swimming...who knew they could be so graceful? This is on YouTube (this is cannot be seen on HISD computers because it is filtered out)...so please monitor use! For whatever reason, the class wants to know more about ivory and elephant poachers! I told them all I knew...but they want to know more! Be on the lookout...some were really concerned they might have ivory in the house and will want further clarification from you!