the world is truly our classroom and we certainly find our share of small critters! thanks to grandma mary back in michigan, we now have a book so we can identify some of these little friends we find. yesterday love and i found and correctly identified a dead stinkbug! we also used our little book to identify and learn about love's plastic bugs. we had fun making our "bug chart" - we drew a circle around each bug, figured out and labeled what kind of bug it was, and learned about and wrote down what it eats. we also noted if it was a stinging bug!
each kid currently has a dead bug in a little plastic container that they carry around. love had one first (the stinkbug), and jobot wanted one so he could be just like her. thankfully, our porch has a never ending supply of dead bugs, so it was easy to find one for him. they are the most loved dead bugs i have ever seen. they get carried around like little trophies and i often see the kids sitting down staring through the lid at their bug. last night we just about had to pry them out of their hands so they could eat dinner.
the beautiful luna moth (first photo) took up residence in our carport for two days last week. we loved looking out the window and checking to see if it was still there. we were all a bit sad when we woke up one morning and it was gone.
never a dull day around here.
That is HILARIOUS!! like little trophies. I'm glad they are not terrified of bugs, because it sounds like there's no escaping them. Who knows? Maybe they'll grow up to be experts on insects!
ReplyDeleteGlad it's a learning opportunity and fun activity for them, as odd as it is and as unexpected it must have been.
--Rebekah