Thursday 3rd June

Today during reading, a child from Room 1 came to our class with a sealed ice-cream container. I asked him what it was and he told us that it was a speedy spider and that it had been running over the desk, so Mrs Gleeson caught the spider and sent it for us to have a look at. We opened the container and looked at the spider with a magnifying glass, we could see the hairs on its legs. It had white spots and stripes all over its body and orangey-brown front legs. Because it was a house spider and lived inside we let it go inside and watched it scurry about the floor, it disappeared under the teachers whiteboard where it was nice and dark.
Later in the day Jeherson brought in a plastic bag for us to look at inside was a dead ladybug and a beetle. We took them out of the bag and put them into a bug keeping container. We continued packing our bags until we noticed that the beetle was eating the ladybird. It was very hungry and ate very fast.
Taylor: When is it going to finish?
Jeherson: Look it is taking the wings off.
Miss Bell: Why do you think it did that?
Jessica: Because it doesn’t like them.
Sabrina: Poor little guy (ladybird)
Alex: Insects eat bugs, Do they eat Rhino Beetles?
Sabrina: Dragonflies
Jessica: Spiders can eat dragonflies.
Jessica then focussed on the beetle itself
Jessica: Is that its antennas they are very long.
So today we learn the insects and spiders both eat other insects, the children at this stage have not asked the question, do insects eat spiders?