The One and Only Ivan

We really enjoyed the story of the shopping mall gorilla which is actually based on a true story! Ivan spent 27 years inside a concrete cage before being moved to Zoo Atlanta. He was able to live with other gorillas for the rest of his life but always preferred humans because of how he was raised. Ivan lived until he was 50 which is rare for a gorilla in captivity. We very much enjoyed Bob, Stella and Ruby, the characters in the book, and we were eager to watch the Disney movie that recently came out. Did you know that like in the book the real Ivan actually loved to paint! We are going to read The One and Only Bob next! 

As well as watching the movie we made “me-balls” and used the design process to build animal cages. Everyone agreed that this was the best day ever!