What happened in Lema's Cage?
On October 17, when we came in from outdoor learning, there was a group of children that discovered that something had changed in Lema's cage. Some of the responses were:
"I think someone split something on the top."
"What did Lema do? Gross!"
"Is she sick?"
We decided to go and research it on the classroom computer and found out it was an egg sack. We also found out that in the Fall, a mother Praying Mantis lays an egg sack. We also found out that sometimes it is empty and other times there may be up to 200 babies in it. When we researched it further, we found out we needed to put the egg sack safely back in its own habitat and it would not hatch until Spring. Therefore, we gave it back to the students family that donated it to our class.
I wonder what will happen to the egg sack in the Spring?
that is so cool! how awesome that the friends can see this
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