New Friends

We have new friends in room 24!

Remember our mealworms? Well, one of them has transformed!

If you look closely, you can see the larva stage and a pupa right next to it. It starts as an egg, then it becomes a mealworm (larva).

 The third stage is a pupa. You can see it by the corner of the apple. If the pupa is touched, it will wiggle. Ew. Gross.

And finally, it's a darkling beetle. Gross, I know. Since this is our first beetle, and since he/she is pretty easy to distinguish from the others, the kids have named him/her Buster Posey, but a friend suggested we rename him/her to BUGster Posey. I will tell the kids tomorrow. They will roar with laughter. 2nd grade humor. 

Oh, and we also have a new human friend! A boy. He's #25 on our class list. He's all the way from Boston! We sure have had nice weather to welcome him! 

Ants!

We had a visit from #24's pet ants!!


They are harvester ants. They eat that blue goo. They don't have names. :-) although the discussion of names for them was interesting.


Aren't they cool? Apparently they will bite if they get out.


Really cool tunnels.



These look like the easiest pets to own!!


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Our class won the Read Across America trophy, for 2nd grade!



Isn't it a pretty trophy? The kids worked hard to get that trophy. They read A LOT of pages.



See our wormy friend? We are raising him/her and many of his/her friends. They will transform into something else. The kids made predictions. I know what they will be, but I am not talking!


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Check this out!

Bees!!



While walking around Lake Elizabeth yesterday, my friend and I saw this swarm/hive of bees.
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Science

After some technical difficulties, my blog is back online!

We had a couple of special science assemblies.


#9, balancing on balloons!



#14, ready to help our science guy.


These girls made their own optical illusion, learned from the science guy.

To celebrate #24's birthday, we had a Mad Science presentation!


The kids dropped marbles into flour to create craters.


Using lots of cool stuff, and dry ice, our scientist made a comet!


It was very cool, especially because it smoked and made noise!



#24 in her birthday science goggles! Thanks for the Mad Science assembly!!

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Dr. Seuss Fun

Last week we made Cats in hats, after we read The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss.


The kids and cats were so cute!!


First we make a really big mess (a lot like the Cat in the Hat). But we always pick up all our playthings and so, I will show you another good trick that I know.


Coming along!



I have cats for students!!


Ahhhhh! The shark is going to eat the cat!!!



A whole lot of cats and really bad sunlight, so I jazzied the picture up with Instagram.

Ask your child to tell you what this next picture is...


Give up? Wait for it...



It's a jack in the box!!! New jack and headphones for our new listening center. I will be here all night folks.


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Snakes!

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we made pencil snakes!! 2013 is the year of the snake.


Working hard to make a head.


Finished!!!



It was tough to glue on the eyes.


Finished!!


Finished!!!


I made a Giants inspired snake.

In other news....


My mom (who comes to help on Wednesdays) finished reading this book. It is such a GREAT story, but careful because its sad.



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