Worms!

Today was a wormy day. We collected worms out of the puddles and put them in the bug box to observe them. Teacher Ann had a worm book-so during circle time we talked about what we already knew about worms: they live in the ground, they don't have legs, they don't have eyes and then we learned more about them: they don't have bones, they are good for the soil, they have predators ( a new word we'll be working on). Some of the predators are birds and fish. You can reinforce the word "predator" at home. Noah mentioned later in the day that alligators are predators that can eat people. So the concept was working well!

We learned a new song about worms too.

Thousand Legged Worm

Said the thousand legged worm as he gave a little squirm:
Has anybody seen a leg of mine?
For if it can't be found,
I'll have to hop around,
on the other nine-hundred ninety-nine!

Hop around
Hop around
on the other nine-hundred ninety nine.

For if it can't be found
I'll have to hop around,
on the other nine-hundred ninety-nine!

When it came time to let the worms go-we spent time with math-how many worms were there?

9! and how many kids? 10!

Our hike today was deep into the woods, into and onto some giant stumps and many of us played hide and seek in among some huge sword ferns.

The stream was forded on the way home with varying degrees of success as the water was quite high today. But everyone came through happily and with smiles they ran to the tire swing and back for lunch.

FYI PARENTS:

If you plan on having your child in TOP for the fall session-sign ups with the City of Redmond begin on March 19th. At that time it is open to the public.