As we get ready to celebrate the beauty of the world with an appreciation of G-d's gifts we stopped and asked the children to think of things in nature what they liked or thought was beautiful. We heard the following comments: "horses, rainbows, butterflies, flowers, trees falling down because I get the sun, I don't like the trees falling because I get hot."
Yes, we were out looking and we decided to dig for worms and slugs. Yes, we found some. We brought them into the classroom to care for them. The question became, "How could we care for them?" We thought first we needed a house or habitat for them. Ezra, Max Goldberg, Max Greenstein, and Noah got busy creating their habitat.
We wondered, "What do slugs eat?" Some boys and girls thought "maybe leaves, maybe make a bed with leaves and dirt, if they don't have food or water that's how they die, I think they eat plants and trees, we need to make holes so they get air." Then as they observed them, many wondered about their anatomy. "I don't think they have ears, I heard they have one leg, I don't think they have legs." There were lots of questions. How could we find an answer to our many questions? "Maybe we can bring in a computer in tomorrow and show us what they do or maybe we could go to the museum," children suggested.
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