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Talking Bugs?!

Today's blog...

Blog City – Day 395

Imagine that you have caught a talking bug in a jar. What does the bug have to say about nature and the life of a bug? Would you let him free, if asked? Why or Why not.

I would let him free... no living thing needs to be trapped in a space too tiny to make it interesting to live. To catch the bug in the first place would be to examine it and study it... I have often done this with my students and let it go after a time. There was one day we rescued a spider to keep the students from throwing sand at the poor thing... it had built its huge web on the climbing equipment. Redirecting them to help and learn from it versus hurting it helped and engaged the students. We let the spider go at the end of the day once the students were gone. I picked a place away from the playground.

Now a talking bug... that is beyond interesting. But it is still a bug. It would be interesting to learn from him what his life is like - a buggy TED talk just for your class. Video him and let him tell you what he likes and does not like. At the end of his day open a window and let him join his friends.


Update:
I wrote 3 poems today. All of them were attempts at a Rondelet for my Poetic Explorations workshop.
I am at 1972 words for Camp Nanowrimo so far!!!