Lady Bug Poems and Books

Ladybug

     The ladybug's a beetle.

     It's shaped like a pea.

     Its colour is a bright red

     With lots of spots to see.

     Although the name is "ladybug",

     Some ladybugs are "men"

     So why don't we say "gentleman bug"

     Every now and then?

     Ladybug

Oops!

In the window of the washroom
At our school yesterday,
A little bug was crawling
In its little bug way.

I whispered in its tiny ear
To not make any noise;
Because it was a ladybug
And that washroom was for boys!

Raindrops
by Aileen Fisher
How brave a ladybug must be!
Each drop of rain is big as she.
Can you imagine what you'd do
If raindrops fell as big as you?

We Love Bugs!

(from The Mailbox, Insects)

________bugs,

________bugs,

Even ______ and____ bugs.

We love how they ________.

We love when they ______.

We love that they _______.

One day I found

Upon the ground

A little mound

With ants around,

Running and hurrying,

Busy and scurrying.

I watched them go;

I laughed at some

That ran to and fro

With a crumb of cake

I gave them to take

Into their mound

Upon the ground.

I saw a thousand ants -

A thousand - maybe more,

All in a family

On the old shed floor.


They all were very busy

Going this way and that,

All neat and trim, and stringlike,

Not a chubby one, or fat.


I looked to see differences

They might have from one another,

But every one looked just like

Another or his brother.


I hope they have a special way

To know just which one's who;

If I had such a family,

I don't know what I'd do!

Poems and Books

    Fireflies

 by Grace Wilson Coplen

     I like to chase the fireflies,

     Chase them to and fro'

     I like to watch them dart about,

     Their little lamps aglow.

     In the evening's twilight dim

     I follow them about,

     I often think I have one caught,

     And then his light goes out.

     I cannot tell just where he is

     Until he winks, you see,

     Then far away I see his light,

     He's played a joke on me.

    Bugs Come Out In Spring

    (to the tune of "When the Saints Come Marching In")

     Oh when the bugs come out in spring

     Oh when the bugs come out in spring

     I want to be outside watching

     When the bugs come out in spring

     I'll see some crawl; I'll see some fly

     I'll count how many go marching by

     I'll watch and see how many I know

     Of the bugs that come out in spring.

     Firefly

 by Meish Goldish

     Firefly, firefly,

     Wow, how you glow!

     Under your body

     You light up below!

     Firefly, firefly,

     Wow, how you shine!

     At night in the dark

     I can see you just fine!

    Firefly

     A little light is going by,

     Is going up to see the sky,

     A little light with wings.

     I never could have thought of it,

     To have a little bug all lit

     And made to go on wings.

     Fly

     A fly flies by, quicker than the eye!

     On two thin wings, it darts up high.

     Those tiny wings can really fly!

     Beating 200 times a second - oh, my!

     The fly goes Buzz as it flaps in the air.

     The Buzz you hear are the wings going by!

     So if a fly ever catches your eye

     Don't ask why it buzzes - you now know why!

     Grasshopper

     Hop, Hop, Hop

     My, what strength

     A grasshopper hops

     Twenty times its length

     Hop in the grass

     Or on a single blade,

     Hop in the sun

     Or hop in the shade.

     Farmer says, "Grasshopper,

     Stay off my crop!"

     There goes the grasshopper,

     HOP, HOP, HOP

Crickets

  by Helen Wing

     What makes the crickets "crick" all night

     And never stop to rest?

     They must take naps in daytime

     So at night they'll "crick" their best.

     I wonder if they just take turns

     And try to make it rhyme'

     Or do a million crickets

     Keep "cricking" all the time?

Art Activities

from The Mailbox, Insects

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from The Mailbox, Insects

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Students will use Marshmallows, Peanut Butter, Pretzel Sticks, Potato Chips, Chocolate Chips, and Licorice Sticks to create their own edible insect.  They will use their knowledge of insects to have the correct parts of the insect.

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(instructions and pictures soon)

Each Student is responsible for bringing in 3 different insects.  We will display these on a tray in the room.  The students will use duplicate bugs for investigation.  

Students will use the duplicate bugs to weigh, measure, look under the microscope, and dissect the varies parts of a bug.

Students will observe the Ant Farm daily and write or draw one fact that they witness.

Students will observe captured Fireflies in both light and darkness (using our student created star laboratory.