May 31st, 2019
There was a lot of fun to be had this week. We were outdoors playing at the parks, in the dandelion fields, in the ravine and NoseHill Park. We took our arts and crafts outdoors as well (painting and beaded pipe cleaner worms)! The kids climbed dirt walls and large cement blocks, and jumped over the creek. Such fun gross motor activity! And we even saw Blue Jay birds.
Our theme this week was worms. We learned so much about worms! Earthworms can grow new tails but not new heads, they have no eyes or ears but can feel vibrations and can sense light. This is how birds can catch worms; by pecking at the ground to trick them into thinking underground predators are close by, so they will surface. If worms don’t have water/moisture they will not be able to breathe and will dry up. They do not drown. It is thought that they come up when it rains so they can migrate. We were surprised to learn that a worm is both a boy and a girl at the same time!
We made pipe cleaner worms in paper apples and homemade gummy worms. The best part of of the gummy worm process was squeezing them out of the straws and eating them of course!
There was a lot of fun to be had this week. We were outdoors playing at the parks, in the dandelion fields, in the ravine and NoseHill Park. We took our arts and crafts outdoors as well (painting and beaded pipe cleaner worms)! The kids climbed dirt walls and large cement blocks, and jumped over the creek. Such fun gross motor activity! And we even saw Blue Jay birds.
Our theme this week was worms. We learned so much about worms! Earthworms can grow new tails but not new heads, they have no eyes or ears but can feel vibrations and can sense light. This is how birds can catch worms; by pecking at the ground to trick them into thinking underground predators are close by, so they will surface. If worms don’t have water/moisture they will not be able to breathe and will dry up. They do not drown. It is thought that they come up when it rains so they can migrate. We were surprised to learn that a worm is both a boy and a girl at the same time!
We made pipe cleaner worms in paper apples and homemade gummy worms. The best part of of the gummy worm process was squeezing them out of the straws and eating them of course!
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