Jonathan started his lesson today by drawing a puffin. We studied the puffin earlier in the week. He then went on to listen to the facts about the flamingo while he drew it. Jonathan learned that there are five different species of the flamingo. The American flamingo can be found in the Caribbean and Mexico. He found out that the knobby looking joint that a flamingo has on its very tall, skinny legs is actually an ankle. Therefore, the joint bends in the right direction and not backwards as people think. Jonathan learned that the flamingo eats shrimp and algae and that this food gives the bird its pink plummage. He also learned that the flamingos mate for life. The female only lays one egg at a time and the male and female take turns guarding and warming the egg. Jonathan saw the beautiful dance that is done by flamingos to woo female flamingos for mating. He worked on a short quiz on quizziz.com to review some of these facts.