Each month a few parent volunteers will be coming into our classroom to lead an interactive science lesson. 4 Winds is a state wide hands on ature program. This year's theme is patterns in nature. Thanks to Emannuelle for helping Shannon and Sigrid get acclimated with the materials and routines. Our volunteers began the morning with an entertaining puppet show where the students learned the difference between spiders and insects. Everybody then have the opportunity to experience how web-building spiders use their sense of touch to find their prey and capture dinner in their webs. The students also put together a puzzle of a spider's body and learned that spiders have two main body parts: the cephalothorax and the abdomen and have eight legs that come out of the cephalothorax. They were amazed to discover that spiders can have up to eight eyes, but they cannot see very well! The kids were also able to observe real spiders up close!
