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All About Ladybugs

June 6, 2011 @ 4:54 PM 14 Comments      

Our new Chime In Poem for the week is all about ladybugs. Before reading the poem, students had to share what they already knew about ladybugs. The children used a variety of tools to share their thoughts in both pictures and words. We hope that you’ll have a look at this slideshow, and then leave a comment here telling us what you know about ladybugs.

Thanks for helping us learn!
Miss Dunsiger’s Class

All About Ladybugs on PhotoPeach

14 Comments

  1. Melina Akins
    June 6, 2011 at 5:15 PM
    Hello Gr. 1 class and Mrs.A. Dunsiger
    I love your work on lady bugs. I was very interested in your pictures and all the tools you used to learn more about lady bugs.
    I learned that Lady Bugs have 6 legs and 2 antenae. They also like to eat little green bugs called aphids. I really like lady bugs and when I was little we believed it was lucky to have a lady bug in your house.
    Have fun discovering more about Lady Bugs and other adventures. Looking forward to reading all of your blog posts and ideas.
    Have a great day,
    Melina Akins
    Educational Technology Consutant in CCSD
  2. Mrs. Jacobs
    June 6, 2011 at 5:24 PM
    Oh my goodness I have learned so much about ladybugs! I can also tell you I just researched ladybugs in Hawaii and they can be found but they are not red or orange with black spots. Ladybugs are a dark blue and look almost black! That’s what I know about ladybugs!
    Aloha,
    Mrs. Jacobs
  3. Carl McCaskell
    June 6, 2011 at 6:53 PM
    I am very impressed with your slideshow! Thank you for sharing all of that interesting ladybug information with us! I can’t wait to see your next class project.
  4. MrsRipp
    June 6, 2011 at 7:20 PM
    What a great project you made. You certainly learned a lot about lady bugs. In Denmark where I am from, if a lady bug lands on your hand you get to blow on it. If it flies away you get to make a wish, that is what I know about lady bugs. OH and in Wisconsin we have something called asian beetles that look a lot like lady bugs except they are orange and they bite.

    Nice job kids!

    Best,
    Pernille Ripp
    Middleton, WI
  5. Tania McKague
    June 7, 2011 at 6:46 AM
    Excellent presentation on ladybugs. Sounds like you know a lot about these bugs!
  6. Mrs. Harrison's Gr 2/3 class
    June 7, 2011 at 7:53 AM
    We listened and read your slide show. We watched a short clip on from Discovery about ladybugs. We learned that ladybugs have strong jaws so they can eat aphids. There are 350 different types of ladybug species in North America. The red ladybugs have 7 spots. The yellow ladybugs have 21 spots. Aphids damage plants so gardners like ladybugs. We also read a non fiction book titled Ladybugs. We learned that the eggs are yellow. The larvae are black. The larvae molts its skin four times before it turns into a pupa. Then it splits open and an adult ladbug crawls out.
    The adult is yellow with no dots. The ladybugs rests and hardens. It changes colour. It turns red and black. Ladybugs hibernate during the winter.
    We had fun learning about ladybugs. We look forward to hearing about what you learned.

    Mrs. Harrison’s grade two and three class.
  7. Daniel P.
    June 9, 2011 at 8:44 AM
    I learned that a ladybugs can be different colours.
  8. cristiano
    June 9, 2011 at 8:44 AM
    Dear MrsRipp

    I didn’t know that if a ladybug lands on your hand you get to make a wish.

    Thank you for sharing that with me.
  9. Daniel L
    June 9, 2011 at 8:45 AM
    I learned that ladybugs can spray thick jell and it eats aphids and don’t spray poison on aphids because it will poison the plant to.
  10. Rachel
    June 9, 2011 at 8:46 AM
    Mrs. Jacobs
    Thank you for telling me that about ladybugs.
    from Rachel
  11. hannah
    June 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM
    I lurnd that latybugs have a thik jell.
  12. Tamana
    June 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM
    I learned that ladybugs eat white flies.
  13. Mark
    June 9, 2011 at 8:48 AM
    Dear Mrs.Harrison’s class

    Me and the rest of the class learned from what you toled us.
  14. Shay
    June 9, 2011 at 8:48 AM
    Wow! I did not know that there was a beetle that looked like a ladybug that bites. Everybody who made a comment taught me a lot about ladybug,thank you for all the stuff you said about lady bugs.

    My name is Shay and I am in Miss.Dunsiger’s grade 1/2 class.

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