We had so much fun learning all about insects. We sang a fun song to help us remember all of the body parts that insects have.
We then did a fun class exploration of the way different insects eat.
There are three different types of insect mouths that we investigated.
After we learned the different ways of eating, we decided to pretend to be insects.
Each student got a picture of an insect out of the bag, then pretended to eat like that insect would.
Here are the beetles that have "plier mouths".
They eat solids and use their plier-like mouth to crunch.
Here are the flies that have "sponge mouths".
These insects either eat liquids, or they spit on solids to make them juicy. Then they use their sponge-like mouth to soak the food up.
Finally, here are the butterflies that have "straw mouths".
These insects use their straw-like mouth to suck up yummy sweat liquids.
That afternoon the whole class woke up as beautiful butterflies, and had a delicious nectar snack using their "straw mouth".
Also, we read the Eric Carle book, The Grouchy Ladybug, and made ourselves into grouchy (and love) bugs.
Once we learned all of the criteria to be an insect we could complete this chart...
Thank you for being an amazing Star of the Week sweet Elena!
And thank you for the delicious elephant ears and eclairs.
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