Joy of Interest and Curiosity Day 1: Love Bugs

The Joy of Interest and Curiosity started off all bugged.  We read Diary of A Spider and sang Itsy Bitsy Spider. We read Lyla the Lovesick Ladybug and sang Ladybug Fly.  It was so much fun we read the Very Hungry Caterpillar book and sang the Butterfly song.  We had a very long discussion about bugs that bite and bugs that don't.  All of the children are serious authorities on bugs that bite.  It was determined after a while that ants do not bite, they just tickle. So we sang Ants Go Marching as we marched into the kitchen for snack.

For snack, I retold the Very Hungry Caterpillar and we tried ALL of the foods the caterpillar ate. 

The fruit was a big hit, except for plums.  No one liked the plum (it was very sour).  Of course, all of the "sometimes" foods were well liked, but no one asked for seconds on any of those.  I was surprised!  I told them they didn't have to eat anything they didn't want, but if they were curious they could try everything.  Joseph wins for trying all of the food.  He tried pickles, salami, sausage and swiss cheese.  Isabel and Kai loved the salami. Grant had seconds of the sausage, and everyone had seconds or thirds of fruit.

After snack and free play outside in the backyard, we started our craft

While our caterpillars dried we played the question game, and they tried to guess what was hiding in my bag.  We talked about feeling curious.  They finally figured out I had magnifying glasses in my bag.  We went on a walk and used our magnifying glasses to look closely at all the things we were interested in.

 Evie found a stick

Yellow flowers




Purple pretty



Kai and Sean found itty bitty pine cones

A tiny lonely ant



A spider web.  The spider ran into the hole when he saw us.

We finished exploring and returned home to finish our TWO crafts, what a busy day!

Cute little caterpillars turn into . . .



Beeeeautiful butterflies

We finished up our very busy day with letter practice and writing in our journals about what we found on our walk.

Hot pink flowers