{"id":3574,"date":"2008-09-17T05:41:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T09:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2014-03-08T08:04:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:04:28","slug":"programs-for-homeschoolers-at-zoo-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/3574\/programs-for-homeschoolers-at-zoo-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Programs for homeschoolers at Zoo Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was Homeschool day at Zoo Atlanta and they have a brand new program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooatlanta.org\/education_homeschool.htm\">Homeschool Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Join Zoo Atlanta for an afternoon of learning and discovery designed specifically for home school students. The HomeSchool Academy is a unique program allowing students to explore animal and science concepts in a fun, interactive environment. Programs are grade-appropriate and include games, activities, Zoo tours and animal encounters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Information on it crossed a list I&#8217;m on last week.  I checked out the zoo&#8217;s website  and found   one must register and pay seven days in advance.  So, I was lucky.  One day later would have been too late for this month&#8217;s fun.<\/p>\n<p>The 8 to 10 year old group was scheduled to learn about physical adaptations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Discover the amazing adaptations that help animals survive. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parents aren&#8217;t permitted&#8230;.and I mourned a little over this as I&#8217;ve always wanted to see backstage at the zoo.  But as they aren&#8217;t permitted and I get precious little time to myself, Marty took H.o.p. down, as he has just finished a big job down at the studio that has had him there 12 hours a day for weeks.  (I planned to get some more writing done but then I took a Benadryl and sometimes Benadryl puts me to sleep and sometimes it doesn&#8217;t and today it knocked me out.)<\/p>\n<p>H.o.p. promised me photos, taking along his little camera.<\/p>\n<p>There were loads of kids.  Marty said it took him 25 minutes to get H.o.p. checked in and they weren&#8217;t at the back of the line.<\/p>\n<p>After the program yesterday, H.o.p. related excitedly that he had a great time and took a few photos, including <a href=\"http:\/\/hop.idyllopuspress.com\/blg\/242\/today-i-went-to-the-zoo\/\">this one<\/a> of a model of a Panda skull.  (His camera did surprisingly poorly at the zoo.  Usually it does fairly well but the pictures today are all blurred and very overexposed.  H.o.p. and I worked a little on this one in Photoshop.)<\/p>\n<p>Marty says the educator told him, &#8220;You have a budding photojournalist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, H.o.p. was the only one who took along a camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was Homeschool day at Zoo Atlanta and they have a brand new program called Homeschool Academy. Join Zoo Atlanta for an afternoon of learning and discovery designed specifically for home school students. The HomeSchool Academy is a unique program allowing students to explore animal and science concepts in a fun, interactive environment. Programs are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[424,422],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-homeschool-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}