Going Buggy in KA!

We have had so much fun studying insects this week. We went on a bug hunt with our 4th grade buddies. We used magnifying glasses, nets and bug boxes to take a closer look. We found exoskeletons, spiders, crickets, earthworms and more.

 

Sometimes it was hard for Mrs. Magner to take a photograph of us because we were so very excited to be outside looking for insects.

We learned that insects have compound vision and have between two and 30,000 lenses in their eyes. We tried on these compound vision goggles to simulate what an insect sees. We laughed and laughed when we tried to write our names with these goggles on. We told Mrs. Peterson that insects might not be able to move to first grade if their handwriting didn't improve!

Mrs. Magner will try to capture Sabien, Gabriella, Leticia, Jack and James going buggy in these goggles too.

 

Mrs. McKinney delivered some painted lady catepillars to KA, and we love watching their metamorphosis. We also each have our own mealworm and check on him/her every day as part of our morning work. We get very excited when our mealworm molts!

 

 We have been doing lots of fun centers during Daily 5. One of favorite new centers is Sentence Dice.  We make each other laugh with our funny sentences each day.