insects

Arachnids, Bugs, Insects

Submitted by Mrs Froman on Sun, 2008-05-18 04:10.

May 16, 2008

We had much more time this week to appropriately tend to our topic, INSECTS. Because all of the children, both boys and girls alike, are fascinated by these creepy crawlies, we were delighted to examine them more closely. Since bugs can be found most everywhere, we were able to examine some first hand, and go beyond book learning alone. Yes, we even have an occasional visitor in the form of an ant...our juice leftovers can be very sticky! Don't be alarmed. This just affords us a "teachable moment" regarding cleanliness.

So what did we learn about insects? Here are a few of our discussion topics:

INSECTS have three body parts (head, THORAX, abdomen) and six legs.

Spiders don't measure up. They have only two body parts and eight legs, hence their classification as ARACHNIDS.

ANTENNAE do most of the seeing, hearing, feeling and touching for bugs (catchall category)

Happy Mothers Day

Submitted by Mrs Froman on Mon, 2008-05-12 10:38.

Happy Belated Mothers Day to all of our wondereful mommies. You are the best! Your children were so excited about honoring you at our singing show. Thanks to all for the great attendance. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, especially the performers! Our week flew by as we "rehearsed, " walked to the green house, wrapped our purchases and put together our card for Mom. Needless to say, little time was left to concentrate on our topic INSECTS, so we will repeat it this week. Those of you attending the show may have noticed our LARVA container. We are anxiously OBSERVING them as they eat, fatten up and spin their COOCOONS. Certainly before the year ends they will have METAMORPHOSIZED into beautiful butterflies that we can free in our field. We will keep you posted.

IMPORTANT NEWS/DATES:

May 19th- Firehouse field trip. All are welcome to walk along with us.

May 19thweekly topic - The Five Senses