BOOK Bug Scavenger Hunt

We are spending time studying the orchard this month with our Mother Goose Time.

  These last few days we have studied all sorts of animals that visit the orchard including: raccoons, porcupines, birds, squirrels, and today we looked at bugs!

Our Mother Goose Time STEAM station had us going outdoors to complete a fun 

Bug Scavenger Hunt.  Unfortunately the weather is not cooperating (cold, wet, and rainy), 

and plan "B" needed to happen.  

"B" is for BOOKS.... a BOOK Bug Scavenger Hunt!

I love Usborne Books.  They have some amazing ones for preschoolers.  

I recently purchased the book My First Reference Book About Nature  ($9.99), which coincides perfectly with this Orchard Unit from MGT.   I printed out the Bug Scavenger Hunt page from the MGT Member Resources, pulled out our book, and asked my girl to flip through the pages and find what was on her scavenger hunt sheet.

Not only did she check off the boxes and color the bug, but I had her record what page number we found that particular insect on.  This helped her practice writing and recognizing her numbers. 

The first bug she found was the dragonfly pictured below:

We had a whole page dedicated to flowers and how bees help pollinate them.

We found a grasshopper, ant and fly as we learned about the six major animal groups. 

Then we came across a page completely devoted to Bugs and Insects! Perfect.  We found all the rest of the bugs for our scavenger hunt on this page.  

I love how she worked on writing her numbers and coloring in the lines, which is something she probably wouldn't have done if we went outside and did a bug hunt in our garden.

Sometimes adapting the lesson plan turns out to be just as fun as the initial one... or even better.

Happy Learning!