Insects- Ants

We started our Science lesson on insects from Living Learning Books and made this fun ant craft to go along with it.

To make this craft you will need three sections of an egg carton, markers to color, eyes, glue, pipe cleaners for the legs and antennae.

All insects have six legs and three body parts- a head, thorax, and abdomen.

The Butterflies Are Here!

The Monarch butterflies have emerged from their chrysalis and they are using their proboscis to drink the sugar water we left for them. The girls like to reach into the butterfly house and feel the butterfly wings flutter on their hand.

Every year we go through the same thing.....Olive gets so sad when it's time to release them into Grammy's garden. "It's almost time for their wings to fly," I tell her. "I know," she replies.

The life cycle of a Monarch butterfly is an amazing thing to see.

We have ladybugs!

The ladybugs have emerged...at first they were yellow, but now they are turning more red. The girls have really enjoyed watching them change. We will find them a nice home in our garden next week.

The Ladybugs have arrived!

Olive received a ladybug kit from Insect Lore for Christmas. Since the weather is right we ordered our ladybug eggs and they just arrived. In a few weeks we and you will see our eggs change from larva, to pupa, and then into adult ladybugs. We will watch them grow in their ladybug land pictured at the bottom.