A HUGE thanks to Aunt Maria for allowing us to use her Amazon gift card to get this as well as some books on our wish list.
Our harvester ants arrived 2 weeks ago, and they have been BUSY!
Our current unit studies are ANTS, THANKSGIVING and EGYPT. The boys have been learning all about Thanksgiving and working hard on their "packets". A few things in their packets are: coloring pages of turkeys, cornucopias, pilgrims, Native Americans, etc. Some spelling words, mazes, life cycles of pumpkins. Also some trivia about Thanksgiving and pumpkins.
Learning about ants is fun, well- for Rylan and I at least, we are the "bug people" of the family. We've done a few crafts with ant subject, too!
Their tunnels are so intricate and amazing.
Their ant crafts
As part of our study of Egypt, we made a model of the Nile River. Its a cake pan, soil and grass seed, lined with an aluminum foil river. They flood it weekly to help the grass grow. Today they cut the grass back.The Sphinx was found in their archaeological dig
I found a template online for making a cardboard pyramid, so maybe we'll get to that this week?
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If I were your kid, I'd have to play sick during the ant lessons! Just the thought of having ant farms in my house gives me the willies. Chris wanted one when we first started living together. Needless to say, my fear won over his desire to watch scary ants. :)
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