Today the class and I took a field trip to the Bill Mason Centre - an outdoor education facility in Kanata that focused on the Diversity of living things - identifying, classifying and illustrating both trees and insects.
After spending a majority of the morning wandering through the forest - taking in the magnificent scenery, the wonderful colours that surrounded us from the many maple trees and also the tranquility of the forest - well - until we arrived ;)
During the afternoon we tried our luck at collecting insects using a variety of techniques - dragging a net along bushes, using a "white" blanket on the ground and swinging a mesh net through the air. Butterflies, bees, wasps, hornets, dragonflies, grasshoppers and a few spiders - even though they are not an insect! The kids struggled to find a praying mantis, but made up for it with a huge collection of bugs and frogs.....a great day!
The kids and I laughed hard all day - with the class "posing" for many photos - wonder who they get that from!
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