Assembling unit studies is one of the things that I like doing.  Last summer, we worked on insects and I made a compilation of work which t...

Here’s a summary of our insect activities for the past week.  Most of these materials are old and reused and many of our activities were not...

Here’s a simple way of telling whether an animal is an insect:  has 6 legs (with or without wings).  This is something new to Vito, the word...

Vito and I have been talking about insects in the past few days.  I mentioned in my previous post, the current interest on insects was brou...

Vito is 42 months old. So we are seeing a lot of bugs lately.  Vito is enjoying it!  We do nature walks in the morning to see the honeybe...

Vito is 32 months old. The appearance of the honey bees in our front and backyard has led us to look into the lives of these beautiful crea...

I am reintroducing some Montessori-inspired activities once again to Vito.  We’ve been doing lots of free play for the past few days that I ...

We started off our Insect Unit this week by tweezing insects from the grass.