This week we are learning about Crickets and Grasshoppers.

Yesterday, we read Bring Me A Rock!

The Grasshopper King wants his throne made of rocks - lots of rocks!

"My throne would be made out of candy canes."

"My throne would be made out of people."

Today we read Are you a Grasshopper?

We learned many interesting facts about grasshoppers in this book.

We also learned a lot from this video!

 Our first Fun Friday in the park was so fun!!!

Some of us were archeologists - digging for bones. This one is a tyrannosaurus tooth!

The ever popular slides!

Some of us learned how to "pump" our legs to keep ourselves swinging.

We did some inside learning too. We wrapped up bees and wasps week by observing the differences between honey bees and bumble bees.

It is amazing what the kiddos noticed. Look at this picture with your child and ask about the differences.

 We tried to find the answers to some of our wasp questions by watching this video.

 Today we got an up close look at a wasp nest - a really big wasp nest!

Here is what we noticed about the nest and we still have many questions.

So much more to learn! Stay tuned...

 Today we got a good look into a bee hive. (You can look at it too - click here)

We asked some great questions;

"Why are they crawling all over each other?"

"Do the bees hatch eggs?"

"Do the bees all live in one house?"

"How can you tell its the queen?"

"How many bees live in there?"

We looked for some of the answers to our questions in this book:

We learned about how they communicate through dancing, we learned about the queen, and we learned how they make honey.

 Welcome to Bees and Wasps Week!

We read The Lonely Wasp.

Wasps have trouble finding friends. But this wasp manages to make some friends - how?

"He saved them from toad."

"Bee (wasp) helped dragonfly."

Our seeds are all planted. Now we wait...

We continued our seed learning by talking about what our seeds need to grow.

 Since we have been going to the library on Thursdays, we have not been writing in our gratitude journals for Thankful Thursday. I decided we need to get back to this (although I do love a good alliteration)  Thankful Wednesday doesn't have the same ring to it but none-the-less...

We talked about what we are thankful for connected to the bird observations we have been doing.

"I am thankful for hawk eggs."

Can you see Big Red the Red-Tailed Hawk and her eggs?

"I am thankful for the eggs hatching."

"I am thankful for the owlets."

Speaking of the owlets, the barred owl babies are starting peek out of the nest box. They will venture out and be flying soon!