Bugs rule!

We Love the Bugs at Haumoana School.

Bugs are important to keeping our environment healthy. Without bugs/insects to help break down and dispose of wastes, dead animals and plants would accumulate in our environment and it would be messy indeed. Insects are underappreciated for their role in the food web. They are the sole food source for many amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

I had seen a great bug hotel at the kindy so we decided to go for a visit to check it out.  Visiting the kindy is always a treat as we get to see old friends and all the cool stuff they are doing.  They are an enviro-kindy so their ideas are very much in line with ours too.

We came back to school and had lots of fun planning and creating our bug hotels.

We were first put into groups to talk about our ideas, which we then made into a plan.  We voted for the best one and set about making it out of recycled materials.  Each groups bug hotel was very different from the other and full of creativity and imagination.  We got to share them in our assembly along with stories and our cool movies.  Thanks to Sam our teachers aide who made these fun movies with us.

The next phase was asking for a little bit of help to turn our ideas into reality.  And believe it or not a beautiful big bug hotel was delivered to our room.  Made cleverly by Greer-Roses Pop who is obviously abit of a craftsman.  It is made of wood and is waiting for the next phase of staining, filling and finding just the right posy in the garden behind our classroom. We wrote him thank-you letters to show our appreciation.

But our story didn’t end there because in the next day or so another mini bug hotel arrived.  It was the same as the other one and made by Greer-Roses Pop, but much smaller. We wondered if our large one had magically transformed into something smaller.  Some children used it as great inspiration for their stories. 

Last Friday during Discovery these two girls persisted in staining the whole big bug hotel.  It will soon find a special place in our garden...watch this space!