Wednesday, July 30, 2008

What we learned on our summer vacation.....

The boys love having books read to them and it's just as fun for me to read them. A few nights ago, they picked, "Spider's Web". It's not a story, but a book that teaches all about how a garden spider spins her web, catches bugs, and wraps them up for later.

We made a discovery, not long after reading this book. There is a garden spider just outside their bedroom window (we haven't had their window open in a long time for fear of them falling out). If we put the lamp on at night, the bugs fly up to the window and at times, get caught in the web. We witnessed this several times and the boys just got a kick out of how everything that happened in the book happened with "our" spider too! Corey went on to explain about the "spinneretts", just as the book did. I actually kind of enjoyed it myself, but I got more joy out of knowing that my boys were paying attention and are learning even on their summer vacation. :)

Here is the book:
And here is "our" spider:

An unlucky beetle:

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