Wednesday, May 19, 2010

What Lives Here?

Room 9 have been wondering about little creatures, and have thought of lots of interesting questions to explore. The first one we tackled yesterday was:


What is an insect?


We thought... a fly, an ant, a ladybug, a slater, a beetle, a spider might be insects.

We knew a tiger wasn’t an insect. We thought that might be because tigers growl and insects don’t growl.


We looked at books and we found out...


Insects have 6 legs (so, a spider, a tiger and a worm aren’t insects)

Insects have 3 body parts

They have a skeleton on the outside (like a shell, not like bones)

Some insects have wings. They have antennae.

They lay eggs. Insects change - for example, from an egg, to a caterpillar, to a chrysalis, to a butterfly.


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