Roo finished two workbooks! Party time!
To celebrate, we decided to check out the new Pooseum.
Poo - it's something we have in common with all the amazing animals on this pretty blue planet.
Excretion is one of the seven processes of living things (Year 3, Australian Curriculum).
First, I set up an invitation to create animal scats using vanilla playdough, chocolate playdough and some mix-ins.
I laid out hay, grass, leaves, toy insects and broken pasta to represent bone fragments.
We used photos of animal droppings and a field guide to create some icky gooey scats.
To tune in before we went to the Pooseum, we did a bit of reading and brainstormed what we already knew about poo.
This ranged from the scientific (iron-rich faeces is dark in colour) to the historical (the Groom of the Stool was an important position) to the cultural (I often didn't use toilet paper when I lived in Indonesia).
Roo loved the Pootube...
... especially the footage of penguins projectile pooping. So bizarre!
The Pooseum was highly educational without being over-the-top gross.
Afterwards we went and bought 'possum poop' from the lolly shop down the road (liquorice bullets). Mm-mmmm! Coprophagic!
We had fun looking for scats in the wild using the PooFlip. Roo has come a long way since the day he found a 'rock' for his slingshot which turned out to be a wombat dropping!
I now feel a great sense of affection for all the critters on our planet who have weird and wonderful toilet habits.
Do you have any favourite resources for learning about the seven processes of living things? Please let us know in the comments.
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