After lunch a parent delivered us a treasure trove of bugs collected from the local play centre’s worm farm. I put them in the large tray and the children studied the insects with magnifying glasses. In the tray we had millipedes, a worm, and some slaters or wood lice. Finn pointed at the worm that was squiggling under some grass.
Finn: Is it a snake, Miss B?
Jessica: No it’s a worm
Miss B: How do you know it’s a worm?
Jessica: It is a worm it has dirt on it.
The children were particularly interested by the woodlice that come in a range of sizes a paid little attention to personal space regularly running over each other heads and bodies.
Jessica: There’s a family that the baby one
I wish I had long legs like that one (pointing to a woodlice)
Miss B: Why?
Jessica: Then I could touch the roof.
I drew attention to the antennae of the various creatures in the containers Jessica who spent a lot of time studying the bugs through a magnifying glass surmised that their antennae help them move, I asked her how..
Jessica: When they fall over they use their antenna's to get up.
I was very surprised that during the session the children never questioned the number of legs that the wood lice and millipede had even though the woodlice often tipped onto their backs waving their legs all over the place.
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