Weekend Changes!

Wow, over the weekend, much had changed in our Science centre.  Our monarch caterpillar has crawled onto the mesh in his environment and has formed a beautiful chrysalis.  Now, we have to wait and see how long before he makes his way out as a butterfly.  Hopefully, we will get to watch the process.  Then, our large garden spider had created a cocoon looking contraption on it's web and is now small in comparison to how large it was last week.  We brainstormed for what had happened, and the students were correct in guessing that it had laid eggs.  After researching on the internet, we discovered that there can be upwards of 1000 eggs in the egg pouch, but they won't come out until next year! We have also been investigating how crickets make their sounds.  We have been observing (and listening to) one in song within the classroom. We have discovered that it rubs it's wings together.  Today, we are going to try to imitate it's sound with a variety of instruments and objects.  Did you know that only the male crickets sing?