Learning about snails

Every morning on our way to wait for Ethan's friend to come to pick him up, we always see some snails along the sidewalk. We usually will stop a while and say hello to them and touch them a little bit. Ethan is so excited to see those snails putting their heads into the shell.

So, I decided to let him learn more about snails and found some interesting article and facts about snails. I found some information about snail online so that I too can learn more about snails.

First, we found a snail and setting up a house for him. It is a small snail but they were having a lot of fun observing it.

Ethan is using a magnifying glass to do some little observation.




Now, is Evan's turn to do the observation. They are just like a little scientist, LOL!


Whenever the snail moved a bit, he will come to me and tell me about that.


Here are the materials for the snail craft. I used the egg carton and some tape holder for the snail's shell and body.



The boys had to design the shells by using the marker pens. They put on some color and stripes on the egg carton.




I provided some reading material for Ethan to do some reading about snails. He had to find out some of the snail's characteristic, diet, enemies and life cycle by reading those materials.


Then, he put those information in one file folder to do the lapbook.
He drew a big snail on his lapbook's cover.

Here is the presentation of his lapbook: