{"id":57025,"date":"2014-10-22T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=57025"},"modified":"2014-10-22T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:56:57","slug":"st-mary-students-visit-the-ft-wayne-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/10\/22\/st-mary-students-visit-the-ft-wayne-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Mary students visit the Ft. Wayne Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Douglas J. Heckler<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57026\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kid-with-snake.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57026 \" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" alt=\"Hank Kopack, a second grade student at St Mary\u2019s, got a chance to     hold a ball python at the Ft. Wayne Children\u2019s Zoo. (Photo submitted.)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kid-with-snake.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Kopack, a second grade student at St Mary\u2019s, got a chance to hold a ball python at the Ft. Wayne Children\u2019s Zoo. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, Oct. 9, St. Mary of the Assumption\u2019s Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students took a field trip to the Fort Wayne Children\u2019s zoo. \u00a0The students are starting their science units on animals and their habitats and used this opportunity to see some animals up close and in their own environments. \u00a0The classes had assignments to visit each of the 3 different areas of the zoo; Australian Adventure, Indonesian Rain Forest, and African Safari. \u00a0At each of these locations the students had to find 3 animals and identify them and their habitats. \u00a0Students brought this information back to school and are working on some different project based learning activities in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Douglas J. Heckler\u00a0 On Thursday, Oct. 9, St. Mary of the Assumption\u2019s Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade students took a field trip to the Fort Wayne Children\u2019s zoo. \u00a0The students are starting their science units on animals and their habitats and used this opportunity to see some animals up close and in their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stmaryscolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 15:28:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}