Park Rangers Visit SA!
	Park Rangers made a special appearance at SA and here’s what we learned! 1. Information about habitat on local wildlife including: coyotes, cougars and bears 2. What Park Rangers do from day to day 3. How Park Rangers protect people and the environment 4. What animal hides feel like and what skulls look like 5. How we can help protect wildlife and the environment

Park Rangers Mascot also tagged along for the student's education and delightful amusement!

Kosmo the dolphin visits SA!

Kosmo the dolphin visited SA to teach students important water safety tips. Kosmo and friends came to life teaching our students songs to sing to help remember safety tips including: 1. don't swim out to sea alone, take a friend along 2. don't swim in storms or heavy rain 3. make sure you can see the lifeguard at all times 4. don't swim against currents, relax and slowly swim away 5. wear sunscreen 6. make sure you are supervised 7. have fun being safe!

Jet City Jumpers visit SA!

Jet City Jumpers visited the Spanish Academy to show us how they provide a fun and safe way for their dogs to achieve goals in canine sports.  We were introduced to the sport of flyball.  According to Jet City Jumpers, flyball can be described as follows:  This is a competition which consists of races between two teams of four dogs each, racing side by side over a 51 foot long course.  Each team's racing lane consists of 4 jumps spaced at 10 foot intervals, the first jump being 6 feet after the start/finish line and a Flyball box placed 15 feet after the 4th jump.  The Flyball box releases a tennis ball at the dog after he/she pushes a panel on the front of the box.  Each dog must run in relay fashion down the jumps, release the ball, retrieve the ball, and return over the jumps.

The next dog is released to run the course but can't cross the start/finish line until the previous dog has returned over all 4 jumps and reached the start/finish line.  Jump heights are set 4 inches shorter than the shoulder height of the smallest dog racing in the heat, with minimum jump height of 8 inches and a maximum height of 16 inches. The first team to have all 4 dogs finish the course without error wins the heat.  Missed jumps, dropped balls, etc., all require the dog to be rerun after the rest of the team has finished.   There are either 3 or 5 heats in a race.