Going Buggy!

We have been busy entamologists in our classroom!  Studying insects has been so much fun!!!

We read tons of books about ants and then made an ant to write information about.

We read this precious book and wrote about whether we would step on an ant!

We read several cool books about bees and made a bee to write about.

We compared ants and bees.  There are a lot of similarities and differences.

We learned about dragonflies and made one....They turned out precious!

We read 3 cute books about fireflies!  They loved making the firefly!

We worked on ant hill word families in our spare time.

They made a cute bug to use for graphing whether bugs are cool or creepy.

This is our spring mural outside our classroom!

Today we made praying mantises....super cute!

The weather has been so beautiful! Don't you think?  We have been taking extended recess time!  :)

Spring fever has hit the amazing monkeys BIG time!

Happy Spring!

We Love Eating BUGS!?!

Today we made our edible bugs!  I layed out a whole lot of edible "stuff"!  They got to pick and choose and build a bug.  They had to make sure it had the parts that made it an insect: 3 body parts, 2 eyes, 2 antennae, and 6 legs.  They then drew their bug and wrote about it.  They turned out great!  My smarties had a GREAT time with this fun activity.  A big "THANKS" to all of the parents who brought the fixins for our BUGS!

Here are a few of our yummy bugs!

Diamond's beetle

Alexis' bee

Piper's ant

Kade's ladybug....sooo cute!

Joshua's dragonfly

Izic's firefly

Here are some of their drawings.....

Have a wonderful Mother's Day!!!! Hope all of my smarties remember to give their mother their gift!

Going Buggy!

We have been studying all kinds of bugs this week.  We have talked about ladybugs and read The Very Grouchy Ladybug.  We then made our ladybug clocks.

We also completed our ladybug math and spring fact family books.  These kids are such smarties!

Fact Families

Ladybug Addition

We then moved on to bees and ants!  We read factual information books about both and then compared the two!

Word Families

The kids had their own individual ant hill books to record ALL of the word families in!

We then made our dragonflies.....which turned out sooo stinkin' cute! We read about dragonflies and made an information chart!

Then we learned all about the praying mantis!  The kids really enjoyed learning about these!  The praying mantis' were my FAVORITE!!  Holy Cow!!! They are tooooo cute!!!!

We also learned about fireflies!

The kids have REALLY learned a lot about insects this week!  Tomorrow we will wrap it up by making our own edible bugs!!!!  CUTE pictures to come!  Check back tomorrow!