Wormy Fruit with Teacher Susan!

Hello parents, families, and friends of Teacher Kate's class! Before I tell you about the very exciting project our friends are working on, I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself to all of you. I'm Teacher Susan, and I am thrilled to be working in the preschool classrooms with Teacher Kate and Teacher Jane! I am working to revamp the afternoon class (I hope our late pick-up parents are enjoying friends' evening art, music, games, and dancing!), and I am spending my mornings doing everything I can to help our preschool teachers do their amazing work.

I had a very exciting opportunity this week to do a project with Teacher Kate's morning class thanks to a peach one of our friends found in his lunchbox on Monday. After taking a bite of it, he turned to me and said, "There's a bug on my fruit!" I came over to inspect it, and, sure enough, there was a little worm inching its way up the side. Our friends were immediately excited and wanted to know more. We all looked and talked about the worm and what it was doing. Then we saved the peach and the worm to see how they changed throughout the week. Our friends noticed Tuesday that the worm was not on top of the peach anymore. On Wednesday, one of our friends noticed the worm crawling up the side of the jar. We did shaving cream paintings with yarn worms. We also compared the peach to some oranges from my own home- one healthy and one with a worm as well- and did drawings with chalk, colored pencils, markers, and crayons.

We will continue to observe and discuss how the fruits are changing and what kind of relationship the fruits have with their worms.