Ants

Today we found ants in our laundry room. The kids were so excited about the ants. We have learned a lot about insects in the last few weeks and I just loved seeing them apply their knowledge to a real life situation. They kept running to me to tell me that they saw that the ant had 3 body parts, 6 legs, 2 antennae and no wings. They told me that they knew they were insects and not spiders because they had 3 body parts and not 2 and they had 6 legs and not 8. They also said they didn't have 8 eyes like spiders. Cassandra was especially observant and would run to me to tell me that two ants were fighting, dancing or that 2 ants crashed into each other. I found her lying on the floor in the laundry room just watching the ants. They all hid and so she was sad and was trying to get them to come out again. Unfortunately Felipe didn't know that they kids were so intrigued with the ants. He saw the ants and sprayed them with Raid. Later the kids saw a few dead ants and were sad.