Right now we are flying by the seat of our pants for our science curriculum. The Youngun loves animals and wants to be a zoologist or biologist when she grows up, so for science right now we are just picking an animal and learning all we can about it. We did wolves first and really enjoyed it. I asked her what she wanted to learn about next.
Tapirs, she promptly replied. Hmmmm Tapirs.
I logged onto the library network and started searching. In the entire library network I found one book on Tapirs, and it is actually
Animals of the Tropical Forests by Sylvia A Johnson. It has one small page about Tapirs.
Off on a wild internet search I went! I was thrilled to find
this site which is just chock full of wonderful information about Tapirs! I emailed the chief Tapir lady Sheryl to see if I could print out some of the information for our homeschooling use. Sheryl got back to me within hours to say absolutely and to let any other homeschoolers I know about the site. I, of course, thought of you my awesome blog readers! If your children are interested in Tapirs at all, this is the site to go to for wonderful information and photos.
Thanks Sheryl for all the wonderful work you are doing to promote and take care of the endangered Tapir!
Till next time........GOD BLESS!
