Today we focused our lesson on: Moles and what they eat. We started with an opening activity of making play dough worms and stamp insects. Then I showed a stuffed mole. We talked about what moles eat, the insects and worms that are in our soils. We sang a song that was an adaption of a song in the curriculum Growing Up Wild. It went. “the worms are mixing up the soil, up the soil, up the soil, the worms are mixing up the soil, now plants can grow” we added a verse about bugs and then moles. After singing we read the story of Mole’s Hill by Lois Ehlert. Then we tried a parachute mole game where we pretended the kids were moles and the adults held up the parachute as kids tunnelled under it.
We also sang the song “Wish I were a mole in the ground” learned from Pete Seeger from his Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes cd, but with variations … such as if I were a mole I would tunnel through this town...eat wiggly worms.
Then it was time for our hike. We stopped for an opportunity to dig for critters living underground. We found and explored mole holes and then play a mole game. Kids had to find bugs & worms (plasic) first using their eyes and then being guided by their adult with their eyes closed, since moles usually have quite week eyesight and adaptation due to their life underground.
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