CREEPY CRAWLY BABY SPIDERS!!!

This week the children have been closely examining the baby spiders that Tami captured off of her deck at home. Yesterday afternoon, we released the spiders into our garden. Hopefully, we will end up some pest control by adding the spiders!

The children watched with great interest as the baby spiders fled their captivity in the jar and ran toward the freedom of our vegetable plants. The spiders seemed to be flying because they were moving with such speed and their webs were so small that they were not very visible. The children were very close so many of them ended up with a baby spider climbing on them!

To better investigate their webs, Tami tinted the jar with blue powder so that the tiny web patterns would be visible. The children were amazed that in just 4 days, the baby spiders had filled the entire jar with webs! (And some of the children were just very fascinated with the blue tempera powder that Tami used to tint the web!)

Below are some photos from today!

We celebrated Melinda’s 60th Birthday this afternoon! She was surprised and very happy with the box of 60 cards. Thank you to all that contributed them.

The last picture is what happens to the first candle by the time you light 60 of them!

Here’s a pictorial look at our morning as our tumbling groups rotated!

 

For lunch we served cream cheese and shredded carrots on whole wheat tortillas, apple sauce and Mexican style veggies.

Have a great day!

METAMORPHOSIS!

 

Late last summer, Taylor brought a caterpillar to school that she found at home. Wee Friends created an aquarium home for it. Soon thereafter, the caterpillar wove a cocoon and stayed there until yesterday (we think!). While in the science center, Tami noticed the caterpillar had become a beautiful moth! We studied the moth and then took it to its new home in the crab tree!

Inside, a small group of older friends studied the parts of a race car and hunted around the different WF learning centers to see if they could create a car with various materials of the same shape.

After they collected/compared their materials, they attached them to a Kleenex box to create a 3 dimensional race car.

Tami worked with our new readers, listening as they read aloud.

Our garden is growing! Thanks to our Master Gardeners Paulina and Amy Crosson, we will soon be eating from our own garden!

Today for lunch we served black beans and rice, shredded carrots and corn, and banana/apple fruit salad.

Have a great day!

SORTING!/

We began our day sorting transportation vehicles/bugs/teddy bears into corresponding colored cups.

Using the box of shells Cassie’s mom Michelle brought us (Thanks, Michelle!) we sorted shells by color and texture.

When the swimmers left for the Y, a small group of friends joined to sing “Blue..blue…is the color I see…if you have blue then stand with me…” and we sorted our bodies by the colors we were wearing.

We played our race track music and practiced pushing the ‘green for go’ and ‘red for stop’ pedals taped to the wall.

We enjoyed outside time this morning, experimenting with sand and water in both sandboxes and a couple plastic bins.

For lunch we served peanut butter on whole wheat sandwiches, mixed stir-fry veggies and banana/mandarin orange fruit salad.

Enjoy your day!