Learning about Ants

To start off our Science this year we are studying Insects. Along with our studies, I thought it would be really fun to have an ant farm. I found one at Toys R Us. You have to send a couple of dollars with a coupon that comes with the kit to get your ants. While you wait for them to come in the mail you prepare their habitat. You pour in the sand they provide with water and then insert a rod to make a tunnel. And then you wait...

We waited about a week and a half. Today our ants came in the mail! The kids were beyond excited!

They come in a tube that you need to put in the refrigerator for 10 minutes to slow them down. Then you take the rod out.

And carefully pour in the ants.

Then after watching them for awhile, they dropped a very small piece of carrot in there and wrote about their observations in their journals.

I just had to show a picture of Naomi's journal because it is so cute and surprisingly accurate!