Learning about the Dunes...

Does this look like any sand dunes you've ever seen?

Probably not...it looks like about six room 8ers sitting on the floor...but wait...
They're being covered up...to play the part of sand dunes in a skit... a skit to prepare us for our field trip tomorrow to the dunes!
Good-bye room 8ers, and hello to the dunes!
Seeing as we were in a skit, the dunes needed their hands free...
They were reaching for their flowers... the flowers that once grew on the dunes... a variety of types...
Here came our flowers....
Just pretend they naturally grew there... (remember this is a skit!)

Ahhh, the wind (aka, Jimi) started blowing... and it blew the beautiful flowers on the dunes AND blew the sand of the dunes... as it is suppose to!

Uh-oh....people came over and planted European Beach Grass....
The European Beach Grass took over and stifled out the beautiful flowers...
(Of course, since this is a skit...we simply took the flowers out of the hands of the dunes and replaced them with beach grass...)
Here's the dunes with European Beach grass growing on them...The wind came back...and blew...and blew the beach grass but NOT the sand dunes...which is NOT what is suppose to happen in sand dunes...
Oh happy day...here comes the D.P. Restoration Team...

Looks very similar to Room 8ers!.....
They've come to restore the dunes... to pull out the European Beach grass...
To pull the grass up by the roots....
Oh my! Happy times are here again! With the beach grass gone, the beautiful flowers have come back...
and when the wind blows...
...it blows the flowers... and it blows the sand dunes... just like it's suppose to do!
The dunes are happy.... so happy... that they're throwing off their acting costumes...
and reminding us that this was a skit from Room 8, but a demonstration of what we've learned about the dunes... and to prepare us for our field trip tomorrow!