This past week the students continued their interest in our snails. What was one snail has now become a collection of snails. We have continued to read informative non-fiction books about snails and have discussed and charted what student know about snails, what they wondered about snails, and what new information they have learned about snails. We continue to try and find different foods that our snails like to eat. The students have only observed one snail eating a strawberry during the day. The students made an hypothesis that the snails come out at night to eat, after school, because they observed 2 large bites out of a piece of whole cucumber we placed in their habitat box. We have also seen the evidence (small holes bitten out) that they like to eat cucumbers and spinach leaves and the cuttlebone we add because we learned that the snails need calcium in order to build their shells. Ask your child were the snails mouth is located. Most of the day the students observed that they like to spend time in their shell stuck up on the roof of the habitat container. The students figured that they are trying to stay away from the light (sun) because they don't want to dry out. In the afternoon we have taken them out and observed them moving and have noticed the trails of mucus they leave behind. The students have also noticed that rather then move around objects, such as other snails, the snails will just travel over the object in their way. This is how we can stop them moving off the mirror as they put a leaf in its path in order to move it back on the mirror. The students also decided to name their snails. After discussions about how to vote and only choosing one name for each vote the students choices for top name were Jewel (6 votes) and Fast (3 votes). After the students found 3 more snails we then went back to our list and the students voted again. The students elected to call the new snails Ariel, Frozen and Batman. We are going to continue learning more about snails this week through reading different books and produce some writing and art work about snails.
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