Students working in small groups to make observations of the praying mantis. | Isn't he so amazing? Look at the amazing colors and features on him! | Praying mantis on the defense. Don't make any sudden moves or he will think you are going to hurt him and he is ready to attack! | I tried to be really brave! |
During a math lesson about estimation today, the librarian visited our classroom and told us there was a really cool bug outside the window by the office. We couldn't resist a trip to visit this creature and make quick observations before getting back to our math work. The students begged me to catch it so that we could do closer observations of it in the classroom, so at lunch time I went back to see if it was still there. It was still there and I was able to catch it in a pencil box. There was a lot of excitement and learning this afternoon as the students rotated through stations taking turns to make observations of yet another incredible bug! We learned how to make good observations about creatures by making good guesses why the bug looks like it does and why it is a certain color. We decided that it is a praying mantis. Some of the students got to see the aggressive behavior that it shows when it feels like it is being attacked. We saw it has two sets of wings on its back and can make itself look a lot bigger to scare its predators. It was amazing to see! It made us afraid of it! After school, our librarian was brave enough to pick it up to see if it would fly and let her touch it. She did get pinched a little bit, but not too bad. That made me, Miss Coon, brave to touch it too! I picked it up for a closer look and learned that if I moved slowly, I wouldn't scare it and it wouldn't pinch or hurt me. So, what do you know about a praying mantis? Have you held one before? What were some observations that you made of the mantis when he was in our classroom?
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Jacob
9/24/2015 09:43:50 am
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=praying+mantis&qpvt=praying+mantis&qpvt=praying+mantis&FORM=IGRE
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jaylynn
9/24/2015 09:49:48 am
lol
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jaylynn
9/24/2015 09:48:20 am
I think it was really fun doing research on him and getting to see him up close . at the end we found out he hade wings
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emma
9/24/2015 09:49:12 am
He Had Foru Wig on his back
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Emma
9/24/2015 09:54:39 am
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nate
9/24/2015 09:50:15 am
well it looks pretty cool to me...= D
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brayden
9/24/2015 09:51:22 am
I did not no that he had wings and attract and had fore wings it is interesting I thinnck it is cool haw he spreed his wings win he attract.
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Allyson
9/24/2015 09:54:38 am
The praying mantis apparently has 4 wings instead of 2. It has red fangs. That's what I saw though and maybe some one else did to. I never holded a praying mantis before and I never will. But I seen one on a chair at my house and one a fence at my house too. I also saw when I was researching on the praying mantis that it looks like a branch because he blends in with trees because of its predotors. His colors say,"stay away from me ! " And also another fact about him that his back wings are see through.
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Jacob
9/24/2015 09:55:20 am
This little guy is really interesting. And really really cool! He eats any bug and if you catch another praying mantis you can feed him some of Leo's crickets. You can catch more crickets and you can get another bowl and put the crickets in there! Check out some pictures of a praying mantis! ^
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nate
9/24/2015 09:56:38 am
I don`t know why he has claws but probably it`s why it just had them that way...= p
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Mason
9/24/2015 09:57:45 am
I was super suprised when it became all scary.
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steven
9/24/2015 09:58:20 am
thewrr to iss on the sid of itss hed it had for wingss
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reagan
9/24/2015 09:58:24 am
wow he is defintle ready to fight. also realy agreseve. but over all he super fun to have in the room.but he was rely mad that he wasint out
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Roberto
9/24/2015 09:58:38 am
I think it is big. it look like the bug. it was fun.it look cool. it looked big because it kept tapping the glass. it has four wings because it is big because he was scared.
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Jacob
9/24/2015 09:58:47 am
Hi miss coon!
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Brayden
9/24/2015 09:58:48 am
Black eyes it scars me a lite
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izabelle
9/24/2015 09:58:53 am
i coudint belive my eyes when i saw it . i thout it was prity cool. i loved that we got to reserch about it.it was big . i never seen one that big bevor
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audrey
9/24/2015 09:59:25 am
I think it was cool to me. we all seen it.I loved the bug a lot.It had wings it was cool to me a lot it had a little green on it. It was not that big at all to me.I really like that bug but we had to let it go.I wish that we could keep but we didn't keep it
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nevaeh
9/24/2015 10:00:40 am
He had fangs with red on them to scare away his predators. And he had four wings to make him look scarier too.
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jaylynn
9/24/2015 10:01:59 am
he was brown and green it had wings ,internees , two big round black eyes and long lags so, we thought it was a praing mantis
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Cali
9/24/2015 10:02:36 am
ther wher spice thing on it,s legs . and has 4 whing .the ferst one
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Allyson
9/25/2015 06:15:14 pm
Miss.coon you should make a part that we could just talk to you please ?
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jersey
9/29/2015 10:45:02 am
I really liked how we got to see the preaying mantis.i also got to see the preaying mantis get mad.
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Olivia
9/29/2015 10:52:08 am
does the praying mantis eat some sort of other bug
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Allyson
10/17/2015 03:23:17 pm
Miss.coon can you please keep looking for more cool bugs?
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