Grouptime events

creating an ant tunnel "We think the ants will eat the chocolates first" The children wondered how ants go in and out of the ground and why there are a lot of them around these days. We noticed many ants around the picnic tables and the children concluded that ants come out to gather food like crumbs and snacks left by the children. We investigated by placing a plateful of snacks by the garden but the crows ate all the food even before the ants could find them. The next day we went to check for more ant clues and we found many more ant holes! Mila thought that perhaps the ants found the plateful of snacks after all because there were more ants than the day before.  Paxton suggested that maybe the soldier ants called on the other ants to show where they can get more food but too bad the crows ate it all already. preparing food for ants "We found an ant hole!"

We started our new inquiry for the month of July and it's all about crawling creatures. Central: Crawling creatures are an important part of our ecosystem Lines of Inquiry:  Form - features of crawling creatures Causation - crawling creatures affect the ecosystem Responsibility - human impact on crawling creatures Questions:  What are the features of crawling creatures? Why are crawling creatures important to the ecosystem?  What can people do to take care of crawling creatures? children showed different ways of crawling The children listed the different crawling creatures they are familiar with and what they know about them Paxton: There are different kinds of slugs like banana slugs and they use their slime to help them crawl I also saw a Yellow-jacket fly when we were in Salt Spring               There are fire ants, black ants, and red ants Molly: Leeches help people by making them feel better             Some crawling creatures hiss Mil