PHOTO GALLERY : Southside Elementary Celebrate Learning Day

Marmalade Salon and Boutique staff member Jenna Dilorenzo and owner Nikki Mayforth help Ava Custer and Fallon Rossano make seashell necklaces.

Sarasota Jungle Gardens animal keeper Mark Novak shows children a mocha skunk.

Fifth graders Skyler Metnick, Victoria Meyer, Abby Nations, Nicole Jolly and Lydia Wachob get ready to participate in the corn hole toss.

Kindergartner Rowan Van Dender shows off a shell from the Mote Marine Aquarium zone.

Fifth grader Mason Thomas runs a relay orange race with classmates at the Brown’s Grove zone. Ally Jaynes was one of seventy-five volunteers at the event.

Maisey Tulla and Alyssa Warren listen to a presentation from Spanish Point.

Spanish Point Volunteer Linda Trigg tells children about household chores of the past.

Fourth graders in Mr. Robert Scuteri’s class Kaylee Yunis and Lauren Kazzab sample fresh squeezed orange juice the Browns Grove zone.

Fifth grader Katie Beal drops of an orange during the relay race at the Browns Grove Zone.

Sarasota Jungle Gardens showed Francis the Great Horned Owl to children.

First graders Esmee Dieckman, Serena Beaty and Kylie Giasson get ready to watch a presentation from the Sarasota Jungle Gardens.

Curator of Sarasota Jungle Gardens Dane Gottsch shows four – year old American alligator Peter Pan to Southside Elementary students.

Fifth grader Chris Tocher tosses a beanbag in a corn hole game at the Browns Grove zone.

Kindergartners Ava Sims, Alexa Daverio and Xander Jacobson touch starfish and sea critters in Mote Marine Aquarium’s touch tank.

Florida Studio Theater taught third grader Ava Sepanski how to do a line dance.

Ava Sims checks out starfish in Mote Marine Aquariums touch tank.

Sarasota Jungle Gardens animal keeper Mark Novak shows a 9-foot long Burmese python to children at Southside Elementary. He says pythons are an invasive species in Florida and can get up to 19 feet long.