On Wednesday primary 3 went on their school trip to Amazonia and The Strathclyde Park. We went to Amazonia and we seen all of the rainforest animals. Our guide took us around to see all of the animals. There were toucans, taranchulas, macaws, fish, frogs, nocturnal animals, snakes and butterflies all around us.
After that our guide took us into the handling room. The first animal we got to meet was Wall-E the snake. Some of us got to put him around our necks and some of us got to hold him or feel his scales. We thought he was heavy and we were surprised that he wasn’t slimey. Then we got to meet Bubbles. He was a fat tailed Gecko. We learned an interesting fact about Bubbles, he can make his tail fall off and then he can grow a new one. The last animal that we met was a tarachula called Dave. We thought this name was funny because it was a girl. Lots of us were very brave and got to hold Dave.
The last activity we got to do was play games in the interactive room. We got to play a game where we learned what it would be like to be in a thunder storm in the rainforest. We also got to catch the pretend butterflies and we had our photograph taken in the jungle.
After we had our picnic lunch we walked around the Strathclyde Loch. We walked around the Loch so that we could see all of the preparations that are taking place so that The Strathclyde Park is ready to hold the Triathlon as part of The Commonwealth Games.
We saw the finishing tower where the athletes will end the race. We seen the red curtains and the SEPA bhoy that are helping to make sure that the water is safe for swimming part of the race. There was a construction site with lots of tractors and workmen who were busy getting things ready for the race. We were lucky enough to see the man building the pontoon where the swimmers will start the race.
We even had enough time to go and have a play in the park. We all had great fun even although one of us fell in the mud. There were two zip lines and a huge swing that lots of us could sit on at the same time. The boys had a hard job pushing but the girls enjoyed swinging. Primary 3 thought the trip was awesome!
