Don't bug me!

Today is insect day and the kids' mission was to find 5 different bugs in our yard and identify them with books from the library. I chose books which feature bugs from our area. They went out and found a yellow jacket, a cabbage white butterfly, an eastern kayak pond skater, a pavement ant, a bumble bee, a potato bug,a brown crane fly, and a carpenter ant. For my 5 yr old who loves mantis from the movie Kung Fu Panda I got her a book about Praying mantises. Apparently there is such a thing as a Malaysian rain forest praying mantis which hides amongst orchids as it looks like one and waits for its prey there. We also have 4 insect videos from the library including Bill Nye. As this is part of the grade 3 curriculum my son will have this part of his schoolwork done ahead of time.