Insects & Worms!

The pre-school children have been learning all about habitats over the last couple of weeks and the different types of environments that certain animals and insects need to be in to be able to keep sheltered. They have also been learning about where they get their food from and what they like to eat. Another animal we have been learning about are worms. One of the children brought in a book ‘All about worms’ and Alba was very keen to show Isabelle and Amelia that if they were to lift one of the flaps in the story book, there was a worm hiding underground. Amelia said, “But worms live on the floor!”. As they continued to read the story, there was a part that explained that when the weather has been dry for a certain amount of time, the worms bury themselves far down in to the ground to find the moisture in the soil. Later on that afternoon, Joshua and Ari were watering the flower bed and told their friends, “We are helping the worms so they have some water to drink and now they can come out and say hello!”. 

The children went on to using the wooden planks, bark, tree shavings and conkers from the natural resources box and Florence told Sophie, “We need to make it nice and dark so that the worms can get some rest”. Sophie remembered, “But the worms don’t have any eyes remember, they feel brations (vibrations)”. 

In the garden, Tristan, Isla, Ethan and Charlie explored a rather different habitat. They really engaged in imaginative role play with the dinosaurs which they had set up themselves, working very well as a team to do so. Tristan decided to add leaves, whilst Isla and Charlie collected the wooden logs and stones and Ethan reminded them, “Remember they need some food too”, whilst laying some sand in front of them.