Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Pond Life

How do you learn about life cycles in the wild? Is there a better way than jumping right in the pond and catching your own bugs for observation?  I can't pretend that this might not be one of my favorite parts of the year!!!

After we discussed life cycles and went on a scavenger hunt in the woods last week, we decided to dive deeper! We caught backswimmers, snails, dragonfly larvae, etc and brought them in our classroom!! Don't worry, we will return the bugs to their home in the pond on Friday!
The kids were beyond excited catching aquatic life with their nets and using charts to determine what they caught! One of the students already asked if we could write down observations during writing this week...
We could not have done this without the amazing Sandy Willmore of course and....Molly and Luke Klingele who volunteered ALL day to help out the other first grade classes too!! Luke was in my class two years ago and is a veteran at catching water bugs!!




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