Leswonder
07-22-2008, 06:39 PM
Hopefully in the right place! Feel free to move me if needed and I'll try my best to get it right.
Well! I'm a teaching assistant, and last month when we were doing a topic with our 5 and 6 year olds my teacher wanted them to have real bugs to watch and hold and draw.
I got locusts from the reptile shop, another teacher brought snails from her garden, a parent encouraged her child to bring his wormery(to get it out of the house realy I think). And one little girl brought a tub of woodlice.
My teacher said 'I want some stick insects'. 'you just get them off a bush don't you' she said. Everyone she said that to just laughed. They laughed even more when i said
I knew where to get them and told them it was Ebay!
We got 15 little indian stick nymphs plus the seller added
two adults that i think were probably getting a bit old. At the end of the topic we thought it would be nice to let the childrens families that wanted to adopt a few stick insects each. I was feeling pretty maternal over them so was gutted when there were none left for me .
So this morning a special delivery brought me 10x1.5cm Macleay's spectre nymphs! From Ebay again.
I'm so excited.
I've really got the bug for them now
Well! I'm a teaching assistant, and last month when we were doing a topic with our 5 and 6 year olds my teacher wanted them to have real bugs to watch and hold and draw.
I got locusts from the reptile shop, another teacher brought snails from her garden, a parent encouraged her child to bring his wormery(to get it out of the house realy I think). And one little girl brought a tub of woodlice.
My teacher said 'I want some stick insects'. 'you just get them off a bush don't you' she said. Everyone she said that to just laughed. They laughed even more when i said
I knew where to get them and told them it was Ebay!
We got 15 little indian stick nymphs plus the seller added
two adults that i think were probably getting a bit old. At the end of the topic we thought it would be nice to let the childrens families that wanted to adopt a few stick insects each. I was feeling pretty maternal over them so was gutted when there were none left for me .
So this morning a special delivery brought me 10x1.5cm Macleay's spectre nymphs! From Ebay again.
I'm so excited.
I've really got the bug for them now