Yesterday while using the carpentry table Joaquin discovered a cockroach. This grew a small crowd and lots of high squeals as it crawled down the carpentry table leg and onto the concrete. We watched it crawl away under a pot plant and discussed answers to questions like "what is it?", "what's that on it's legs?" and "what does it eat?".
Eneri and Isaac went back to the carpentry table and found lots of daddy long leg spiders living here. They collected a few in a box each and added grass to the boxes. We talked about their sizes, what they like to eat, where they live and that when Eneri and Isaac go in for lunch, the spiders must go back to the garden for their lunch.
Lastly Isaac and Eneri found a moth in the family dress up area and looked at it on the play cot then watched as it flew to sit on the deck ceiling.
'Young children have opportunities to develop knowledge about the pattern and diversity of the living world. For example, they observe how animals and plants grow and what these creatures need for their well-being', Exploration, Te Whaariki.
Jessie
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