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Convent of Mercy Nursery, Folly Lane, Downpatrick, County Down
REMINDER: New Intake Open Day Information We will be closed on Friday 13th June to allow the children starting Nursery in September 2025 to visit the Nursery.
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Amazon Jungle - Mrs O'Regan

16th May 2025




Today Amazon Jungle came to visit.  Catherine explained that the animals were reptiles and many would normally live in the hot climate of the desert.   We had the opportunity to closely look at them, pet them gently and learnt that they like to eat worms, crickets and mice.

Timothy the tortoise.

Wilbur the bearded dragon

Jellybean the gecko

A snake

Lily the frog

Alisha the tarantula 

Tegu - a bohaja meaning big red.

Fun facts!

A frog has seven steps to eat.

  1. look at what it is going to eat 
  2. hop to it
  3. land 
  4. open its mouth
  5. grab the fly with its tongue - (we practised )
  6. close their eye to allow them to swallow the fly

The snake sheds his skin every 3 months

We knew that spiders have eight legs and now also eight eyes.  Catherine ask us to find our hearts and explained a spiders heart is down by their bottom and that their stomach in is in the their head!!!!!!!

Jellybean is a desert leopard gecko.  He has fingers to allow him to dig down into the sand therefore he does not climb up the wall

 
 
 
REMINDER: New Intake Open Day Information

We will be closed on Friday 13th June to allow the children starting Nursery in September 2025 to visit the Nursery.