Mrs. Dela Cruz's Ladybugs
We practiced looking at ladybugs through the eyes of a scientist and then we used KidPix to draw our ladybugs. We tried to make them as real looking as possible. Do you like our ladybug drawings?
Mrs. Sjostrand's Ladybugs
We used BookFlix and looked at fiction and non-fiction books. We learned that we could read the non-fiction books alone or we could listen to the words. In the non-fiction books, important words are highlighted in yellow and if we hover our cursor over the highlighted word we can see a thought bubble with the definition of the word. If we wanted to we could listen to the definition.
We read A Ladybug Larva Grows Up. We also looked at Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! When we finished both books we explored the web for other ladybug sites. We found a site that had a movie about the Ladybug Plague that happened in Colorado. There were so many ladybugs that the trees and rocks looked like they had red paint on them.
We read A Ladybug Larva Grows Up. We also looked at Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! When we finished both books we explored the web for other ladybug sites. We found a site that had a movie about the Ladybug Plague that happened in Colorado. There were so many ladybugs that the trees and rocks looked like they had red paint on them.
What have we learned about ladybugs?
We read What is an Insect? by Susan Canizares and Mary Reid. Then we looked at ladybugs. Are ladybugs insects?
Let's look closely at the parts of a ladybug. We practice drawing the parts and then we will go to KidPix on our computers and make our ladybugs. We're trying to look at the ladybugs like a scientist would study them. And then we practice being artists and draw the ladybug.
We're reading books about ladybugs. Some books are fiction and others are non-fiction. Mrs. Yoshizu read us The Grouchy Ladybug. That was a fiction story. Mrs. Tisdell read us The Ladybug and Other Insects. That was a non-fiction book.
While we were reading The Ladybug and Other Insects we made these posters showing what we were learning.
While we were reading The Ladybug and Other Insects we made these posters showing what we were learning.
Mrs. Dela Cruz's class (before reading The Ladybug and Other Insects)
What I Know
Ladybugs eat aphids. Ladybugs can crawl. Some have spots. Some are red. They have wings. Some are black. They have legs. All ladybugs are not the same. |
What I Want to Know
How many legs do they have? Do they lay eggs or not? Do they have hands? What do they drink? What else do they eat? Why do we have ladybugs? Are they good insects? How do they grow? Why are they called ladybugs? |
What I Learned
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Mrs. Sjostrand's class (after reading The Ladybug and Other Insects)
What I Know
Ladybugs eat aphids. Ladybugs can eat with their jaws. They can eat 50 aphids in one day. They have something to protect their wings. They have 7 dots on them. They lay their eggs on a leaf, so their babies can eat the aphids. Some ladybugs are orange, pink and yellow. Some ladybugs are different colors. |
What I Want to Know
Why does the mommy ladybug fly away after laying her eggs? Why are the ladybugs wings yellow when they hatch? How do they change? Are ladybugs only red? Why are the eggs sticky when they are layed? How long do they live? Are ladybugs good or bad for a garden? Why do they eat aphids? Why do they have poisonous legs? |
What I Learned
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