Today our kindergarten class had an unexpected guest teacher visitor.
Ms. Wice wanted to introduce us to the life cycle of silkworms.
Each student received their very own set of silkworm eggs and mulberry leaves. Using a magnifying glass students excitedly observed dozens of little black specs eating their way out of the egg sacs and crawling right onto the leaf to eat! For the next month or so, students will continue to feed fresh mulberry leaves to their silkworms and record their observations. While students were engaged with the worms, I quickly browsed @Teacher Tube and @United Streaming. Teacher Tube had a wonderful video from Turkey showing how silkworm silk is spun, dyed hung to dry and woven into beautiful fabrics and rugs. This video helped children gain a sense of how silk worms are helpful to people. Another video I discovered by browsing is www.Truveo.com, It is a video search engine. Check it out!
1 comment:
Janet, I had a similar very cool thing. We were following the life cycle of the monarch butterfly by watching caterpillars go through metamorphosis. My kids were stuck with the concept. So I actually found a movie that KIDS made on the Apple site. It was time-lapsed and very cool since it was made by children around the same age as mine. You might want to look there sometimes. Apple is a great resource, too.
Your writings are really great. I enjoy reading your posts.
beth
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