The Mosquito

I chose the easy & fun route to teach lessons about mosquitoes:





This one is great, but it won't let me embed (Click the link below to see it. It is very interesting!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFfO7f8Vr9c

Click here for the printable wheel we made with the life-cycle of a mosquito after watching the Youtube videos about mosquitoes. We are adding it to the bug notebook.

I took some pictures but my camera battery died so I didn't get great ones, but I do want to occasionally have pictures of them working on projects... so here we go:

They are always so silly! :-)

Termite homes

After reading about termites and adding a page to our insect notebook about termites, we watched this FASCINATING clip about termite homes:

Butterfly videos

We are learning about butterflies.... This clip was very interesting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWT51807cyM

We also watched these:

Praying mantis

Since we have been doing a unit study about insects, and daddy found this praying mantis on Saturday, I figured it was a great time to study them!

He or she is huge!

I didn't know they could eat mice and snakes, but they do!  Eek!


We also watched the link below (It wouldn't let me embed).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGuallLPcM

Bug notebook pages

The boys have been adding pages to their bug notebooks.  These were my 3 favorite from this week. 

  I usually read to them some information about bugs,sometimes watch a Youtube video,  and then they are allowed to choose their favorite fact. 

Ryan is in copy-work stage.

   He drew the picture himself and then copied the letters.

He says his stag beetle is eating a centipede.
All pictures are clickable.

Jonathan writes about click bugs: "Little bugs that click are called click beetles."  What I thought was so cute about this picture was the two little bugs at the top holding the banner.

Justin writes about the firefly.  He had more than one thing he liked about fireflies.

*"Lampyridae" is Latin for shining fire!!

*The chemicals in fireflies are used in research to fight cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses.

*They're related to the beetle.

Bug videos

Seeing bugs in action:

Insect/Bug Unit Study

The boys have been collecting all sorts of interesting insects (pupa, moths, and beetles of all sorts and shapes) so I decided that it would be a great time to do a bug unit study!   We have plenty of resources for to make a notebook with this study.  So far, we have used the following:

• "Bugs Fun Kit" - includes mini-books, coloring books, stickers, stencils, etc (thanks to Papa & Grammy)
• Let's Discover Insects - facts, stickers, & activities (thanks to Mummy)
• The First Book of Bugs by Margaret Williamson - amazing book that I printed from the internet several months ago and just recently read to them. 
• enchantedlearning.com.

Pictures are clickable for closeups

 

 

Justin's

 Ryan liked the Ambush Bug Nymph 

 Jonathan's little potato beetle above is saying, "Did you know that they suck insect's tissues?" 

Jonathan loves to draw comics...

They love creating notebooks.  We will be adding more to them as they learn.