Dear Mulberry,
“I saw a cool spider,” you told me. I wanted to go see it. I followed you over to the hiding bush. There was the spider upside down on its messy web. It was crawling on the underneath of the web from the middle to the edge. I call that kind of spider a knee spider because to me, it looks like it has a lot of knees. As I looked closer, I thought that some of the knees really looked more like feet. You said, “That you thought the spider was dead. Then it moved, and you realized it was alive.” Everyone came over to look at the spider. I thought I might try to draw a picture of what it looked like.
Someone else turned over a big rock, and there was a dark shiny brown beetle. The beetle moved fast. It scurried to hide under the rock. They wanted to see it again and when they went to move the rock, they pushed down on one edge of it. The rock smooshed the back half of the beetle. It could still walk, but I didn’t think it could live half smooshed. I gently smooshed it two more times until it stopped moving. I wished that it could live and do beetle things. We are big and the insects who share the outdoors with us are small. A few of us hung around and looked at the dead beetle.
Love,
Teacher Michelle