Earth Day Toys

Our class had a great time celebrating Earth Day! Everyone made a toy or activity out of recycled objects!

Here are band instruments:

Something that was too BIG to fit in the car!

A cute piggy:

A polar bear!

A homemade creature made out of old PJs!

Many moving contraptions:

An airplane made out of pop cans!

Cardboard airplanes:

A parachute!

A bracelet made out of paper beads, rolled from magazines!

Paper craft!

A submarine!

A cute wiener dog!

A puppy container!

A cute little pink pet:

A Cartesian diver!

Another submarine!

Ella's "thing"!

Another submarine with a working propeller!

Paper toys from Club Penguin:

A boat!

What else can you make with different supplies?

We Have Mealworms!

Our spring science unit (my favorite!) is all about insects! Right now, we have milkweed bugs (their eggs) in a class habitat, silkworm eggs, and mealworms! The mealworms will soon turn into darkling beetles. Each person gets to be responsible for caring for their mealworm at their desk. Today, we dumped out the containers into coffee filters and observed them with magnifying glasses. These mealworms are larvae. Next, they will molt their exoskeletons and change into pupae. Finally, they will emerge as adults!

They are kept in cornmeal. Many of them like to dig and hide in it!

We are having a great time in science!