{"id":2239,"date":"2013-11-08T16:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outdooredguys.wordpress.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2013-11-08T16:10:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:10:29","slug":"last-day-at-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2013\/11\/08\/last-day-at-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Day at the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the last day of the Pond Communities unit here at Laurel with classes from Riverside P.S. and Smithson P.S. visiting. \u00a0For this unit we head down to the pond, catch amazing creatures, and bring them back to the Nature Centre to study them.\u00a0 There was one thing different about today: it snowed.\u00a0 A lot of flying insects survive our cold winters in their nymph or larval stage living under the water.\u00a0 Other creatures live in the pond year round.\u00a0 Here are some of the highlights of things we caught even in the snow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/img_0615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2235 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_0615\" src=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/img_0615.jpg?w=300\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a snowy morning at the Laurel Creek Nature Centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/img_0616.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2236 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_0616\" src=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/img_0616.jpg?w=300\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Busy dip netting at the pond. \u00a0Note the snow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/img_0625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2237 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_0625\" src=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/img_0625.jpg?w=300\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a>This is a really neat Caddisfly Larva. \u00a0It has made itself a case out of leaves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/img_0629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2238 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_0629\" src=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/img_0629.jpg?w=300\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a>This is the Giant Water Bug. \u00a0It is actually the first one we caught this fall. \u00a0What a super end to the unit. \u00a0Thanks to the students, teachers, and parents for making it a great day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the last day of the Pond Communities unit here at Laurel with classes from Riverside P.S. and Smithson P.S. visiting. \u00a0For this unit we head down to the pond, catch amazing creatures, and bring them back to the Nature Centre to study them.\u00a0 There was one thing different about today: it snowed.\u00a0 A [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2013\/11\/08\/last-day-at-the-pond\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>Last Day at the Pond<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13969,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}