Wednesday 9th June

Today we had a large whitetail spider delivered to our classroom.
Jessica: They can eat your skin.
Sabrina: If it eats all your skin, you’ll be dead.
Jessica: You’ll be just like me and it will be red.
Jeherson: I see his eyes.
Shawn: It’s a girl it has a long back.
Jessica: It has red on its legs. (Further justification it is a girl)
Jeherson: It’s a boy, I see some stripes on his legs.
Taylor: He’s pretending he’s dead.

Later in the day some workmen began digging a large channel outside our classroom using small diggers. The children spent sometime watching them, trying to decide what they were doing.
Jessica: I think they might be fixing pipes.
Jeherson: Maybe they’re looking for ants.
We then imagined how many ants we would have found if we had, had a digger to search rather than just our little trowel.