Our week started with a surprise our Praying Mantis eggs had hatched! We released them on Monday morning, after doing some research. We decided we wanted to spare our youngest learners from a cruel life fact that they will eat each other if they do not have food. So out we went to release them because we didn't actually know when they had hatched. The egg case was intact on Friday afternoon, yet Monday morning we were greeted by 100's of baby Praying Mantids. We jumped into our amphibian unit learning some neat information about amphibians. There are really three groups of amphibians... frogs/toads, salamanders, and caecilians (they look like giant earth worms). The kids thought it was cool that amphibians usually live a double life starting out breathing with gills and then as they mature they breathe with lungs like all of us! Mid week was rough and Mother Nature was a bit cruel... but if the rain was not going to go away we were going to work with it... and that we did!! :) I will let the pictures and your child's wet clothes speak for themselves. ;) Next week we are going to continue learning about frogs and I hope to put my hands on some live tadpoles so we can witness the frog lifecycle, before summer. Have a great weekend and I hope we all don't float away. xoxox
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