About this event:

Elodie discovered a Cicada shell this morning on the playhouse. This fueled a great deal of excitement and curiosity. When we met at group time, I explained that what we have is the exoskeleton of the nymph stage of the cicada’s life cycle, sort of like the butterfly’s cocoon. I explained the life cycle of cicadas and will be on the look out for an adult. We watched a short video of cicadas emerging from underground and emerging from the nymph shell.

Several students asked where Mrs. Kam is so we got out the big blue World Atlas. Mrs. Kam is in Jamaica so we found it in relation to North America and on a more detailed map of the Caribbean Sea. Then they asked where Ms. Jennifer is. So, we located Pennsylvania first on a United States map, then Turkey on a map of Eurasia, then we looked across the Indian Ocean to Australia and then across the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of the United States and then back across the US to Alabama. Ms. Jennifer will have been around the world by the end of the summer!