Shawn had done some great bug hunting yesterday and brought to school an earwig that he had found on the carpet. It was dead, which meant we could have a good look at it . It had 3 body parts, 6 legs and 2 antennae, which means that it is an insect. It also had a spiky tail, Sabrina was worried that it might poke her.
Shawn also brought a piece of swan plant to school. I asked Shawn what usually lives on swan plants.
Shawn: Well sometimes caterpillars live on it. But there are little tiny bugs on it.
We looked at the bugs with magnifying glasses so that we could see them.
Jeherson: They are yellow and they have black feet.
Jessica: They are gorgeous
Taylor: They look like dirt.
Jeherson: They live on the leaves.
Finn: Ants are small and they are small, I think they might be ants.
Miss B: Why do you think they live on the leaf?
Finn: They like leaves.
Jessica: Eating leaves.
Miss B: I think this might be a sap sucking bug, it sucks the juice out of the middle of the plant.
Jessica: I saw one upside down, I think they have sticky feet cause they are stuck to them (the leaves).
Miss B: How do they live on the plant?
Taylor: They live altogether.
Sabrina: They live with friends in a family.
Miss B: Why do you think they live together?
Jessica: They love each other.
Finn: They like each other and play. If they don’t have friends they get lonely.
Questions or ideas to explore further:
Why do insects live together? Possibly looking at bees and ants and the different roles of bugs with in each of these colonies.
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