“Once I saw a caterpillar climb up in the tree… He wrinkled long, he wrinkled short, he wrinkled right to me! I put him in a little box… “don’t go away” I said… but when I looked again it was a butterfly instead!”
We have a had buzzing good time learning about insects and bees this week! Our Busy Bugs (a very appropriate name if you ask us…) have absolutely loved seeing and hearing about all the different types of bugs we find in our garden! And we were so proud to see how many of them know so many cool facts about bugs!
Just a few of the bugs we discussed were; grasshoppers and how high they can jump, spiders (which technically aren’t considered to be Insects, but in our opinion, still count) with their 8 legs and webs, lady bugs with their red shells and black spots, butterflies who go from an egg to a caterpillar to a chrysalis to a beautiful butterfly that flies around, bees who make honey and have a very sharp stinger, worms that live underground, ants that are super strong and love sweet stuff, dragonflies that hover over water, praying mantis that can actually box and look like they are praying and even mosquitoes that suck our blood and leave behind itchy bites!
We sang lots of songs about all of these bugs and watched a video showing us how they move around, what they eat and where they live.
For art this week, we made;
- The most adorable little Bees. These will be on display at Art Expo!
- We snuck in some other Art Expo pieces that are looking amazing!
Thank you to everyone who brought show and tell this week!
Reminder: Don’t forget to book your Art Expo tickets! It really is an incredible night that you don’t want to miss!
We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we will see all next week for another exciting theme!
Next Week’s Theme: Frogs and Ponds
Next Week’s Show and Tell: Everyone to please bring something theme related!
Ribbit, ribbit!
Croak, croak!
Hop, hop, hop!
We had a hopping good time this week learning all about frogs, their lifecycle, what colours they can be, what they eat and where they live… which brings us to ponds. We learned about all the different animals that live in or around ponds and the type of plants/flowers that grow there.
We spoke about the life cycle of a frog, how and where they lay their eggs, which then hatch into teeny tiny little tadpoles. These tadpoles eat lots of food a quickly grow from a tadpole into a froglet (which is the “teenage” stage of the frog, before it loses its tail), and then eventually grows into a frog. We spoke about how some frogs can be poisonous, and you can usually tell which frogs are poisonous because they are very brightly coloured. We spoke about how a frog uses its tongue to catch insects flying past and about how important they are to a wetland and/or pond ecosystem.
We sang lots of different songs about frogs and spent many days hopping our way around the classroom and playground. It was so much fun!
The highlight of the week was Friday, when we got to take a walk across the plot into Uncle Georges house and visit his amazing pond. We got to see first-hand all of the plants we were learning about in class, the giant Koi fish that we also got to feed. We took our snack down with us and enjoyed this pond-side, picnic style! We also got a have a turn on the merry-go-round and absolutely LOVED this!
For art this week, we made the cutest little tadpoles by painting egg cartons green, cutting them out and adding eyes and little tails to them. We will be keeping these to display at Art Expo.
We hope you have a lovely weekend, rest well and we will see you next week for some more Busy Bugs fun!
Next Week’s Theme: Fantasy
Next Week’s Show and Tell: Everyone to please bring something theme related
