Amazing Bugs! | Caitie’s Classroom | Education for kids

(upbeat music) - Sing. Learn. Create. And play in Caitie's classroom. Hi, everyone. Come on into the classroom. It's great to see you. We aren't the only ones in the classroom today. Today, there are lots of little creatures all over. Can you see them? Let's take closer look. Do you see it? There's another one and another one. Whoa, there's lots of bugs. Bugs are really interesting creatures. We have lot of amazing things to explore today, but first let's wave big hello to all our friends. Let's wave and sing. ♪ Hello, hello, what's your name ♪ ♪ Hello, hello, what's your name ♪ ♪ My name is Caitie ♪ What's your name? Shout it out. ♪ Nice to meet you. ♪ ♪ Let's be friends ♪ Hi friends. Lots of bugs. Bugs might seem like creepy crawlers but usually they just want to be left alone. When see bug outside, try and leave it alone and give it lots of room. don't bother the bug, and bugs don't bother me. There are lots of different kinds of bugs, too. There are over 900,000 different kinds of bugs, all different kinds. Some have lots of legs and some have wings and some have spots like this bug. (whimsical music) It's ladybug. Have you seen ladybug before? ladybugs are red with black spots. Let's count how many spots this ladybug has. see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven spots, great counting. ladybugs also have wings. Look at that. They fold up their wings, so we usually don't see them unless they're flying. Let's pretend to fly like ladybug. Stretch out your wings and fly like ladybug. Great flying everybody. You all make great ladybugs. look at this bug. This is type of beetle. There are lots and lots of different types of beetles, but they all have the same amount of legs. Let's count how many legs beetle has. One, two, three, four, five, six, six legs. Let's pretend to make six legs using our fingers. Three over here, three over here. We can make our beetle crawl around on six legs. Look at him go. look at this bug. We know what this is. It's spider. Let's count how many legs spider has. spider has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight legs. Great counting everybody. know song about spider. When we sing it we can move our hands to make spider crawling up the water spout. I'll show you how. Try making two Ls with your fingers and thumbs. And turn one upside down and twist your fingers up like this to make crawling spider. That's it. Let's sing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" together. Follow me. ♪ The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout ♪ ♪ Down came the rain and washed the spider out ♪ ♪ Out came the sun dried up all the rain ♪ ♪ Then the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again ♪ That's it, let's sing it all together, everyone. Are your spiders ready? Here we go. ♪ The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout ♪ ♪ Down came the rain and washed the spider out ♪ ♪ Out came the sun and dried up all the rain ♪ ♪ Then the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again ♪ Let's make big spider. We can sing in low voice like this. ♪ The big, big spider went up the water spout ♪ ♪ Down the came the rain and washed the spider out ♪ ♪ Out came the sun and dried up all the rain ♪ ♪ Then the big, big spider went up the spout again ♪ Let's do teeny tiny itsy bitsy baby spider, and we'll sing in high voice. ♪ The teensy weensy spider went up the water spout ♪ ♪ Down came the rain and washed the spider out ♪ ♪ Out came the sun and dried up all the rain ♪ ♪ Then the teensy weensy spider went up the spout again ♪ That was silly. Let's try going fast. ♪ The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout ♪ ♪ Down came the rain and washed the spider out ♪ ♪ Out came the sun and dried up all the rain ♪ ♪ Then the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again ♪ Let's go as fast as we can. ♪ The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout ♪ ♪ Down came the rain and washed the spider out ♪ ♪ Out came the sun and dried up all the rain ♪ ♪ Then the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again ♪ That was fast spider. Give yourselves big clap, nice job. So many different kinds of spiders, big ones, teeny ones and fast ones, too. There are so many different kinds of bugs. Did you know there are way more bugs on Earth than there are people? It's true, but we don't see them all the time because they're so small. And lot of them live under rocks or in the Earth where we can't see them. But if we go looking for them, we might find whole bunch. Let's go looking for bugs in the discovery bin. The discovery bin is filled with some dirt. Lots of other things from outside. Can you see any bugs? see ladybug. There's lots of different bugs. Wow, but there's always more hiding around. So let's dig and see what we can find. (upbeat music) Do you see this? Look at this, we found one. Whoa, this bug has lots of little legs. There you go. Having bugs in the soil is really good for the plants. Helps them grow. Bugs also like to hide under rocks. Let's take look. Nothing there. Maybe here? Whoa, look at this bug. It's an orange color. It looks really neat. Here we go. Do you see this one? It's hiding under the moss. Let's take closer look. Bugs are so different, they're so interesting. Well, bet there's something under this big rock. Should we take look? Let's see, here we go. Yeah, we know that this is. Has eight legs. spider, yeah. There you go little spider, back in your home. Let's try looking under the leaves. You never know what you might find. look at this one. actually made this bug from rock found outside. painted it and decorated it to look like little beetle. I'll show you how you can make rock bug like this at home. Let's gather the things we need. (energetic music) Some things we need for this craft are cotton swabs googly eyes, some smooth rocks, and grownup. You can find your rocks to make our rock bugs outside. nice smooth round rock works really well. like this one. Once it's clean, we want to paint it white. And that's because it makes whatever color we paint our rock bug look really bright. Instead of just painting right on the gray rock. I'm gonna paint our rock bug red. Can you guess what bug I'm gonna make? What bug is the color red? ladybug, yeah. We'll paint our whole rock. It's little tricky to paint rock, but really fun. Once it's all covered, then we'll leave that to dry. That looks good. And once it's dry, we can decorate it. So to make our ladybug, can use some black paint to make little head for our ladybug. Here we go, black head. And we'll make line down the middle. Remember ladybugs have two wings. There we go. What else do ladybugs have? Spots, but to make perfect round spots you can use cotton swab dipped in some black paint. Boop, boop, boop. There we go, got some polka dots. Now let's give our ladybug some googly eyes. We'll add those with little bit of glue. One, two. There we go. hello, little ladybug. What cute little ladybug we made. You can make any kind of bug you like. Maybe beetle or buzzing bumblebee. You can even try making up your own special kind of bug. can't wait to see what bugs you make at home. Let's go on field trip to see some real bugs. We might even be able to hold them. What do you think of that? The bugs we'll see on this field trip are special, friendly kinds of bugs. Let's go. ("The Itsy Bitsy Spider") Hi, everybody. We are here at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory with our friend, Jen, who's gonna show us some of her cool bugs that she has here. - Come on and meet our insect friends. - Wow, what bug is this? - This is thorny devil walking stick. We call her Teresa. - Hi, Teresa. Wow, thorny devil walking stick. 'Cause it kind of looks like stick and it has these thorns on it here, too. - Yeah, they help to protect her so that things like birds and other creatures in the wild don't want to eat her. - Do you think could hold Theresa? - For sure. - Okay. - She's really friendly. Come on, Theresa. - Remember these are special friendly bugs. If you see bugs like this somewhere and don't know if they're friendly, it's best not to touch them. Hi, Teresa. - She eats leaves and just hangs out in the trees. - Very nice, where does she live in the wild? - In the wild, she is from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. - Very cool. Jen, what kind of bug is this? - This is Stacy. She's spiny stick insect from Australia. - spiny stick insect. She does have these spines all along her back all over. She looks like stick that you would see on tree. - She eats leaves from the trees, too. - So why would bug pretend to be stick like that? - So predators, birds, spiders, and things don't want to eat them. - So they totally blend in and no one can see them. - Exactly, they're really great at camouflaging. - Stacy is good at pretending. Wow, look at these bugs. - This is Chuck and Nora. And they are Madagascar hissing cockroaches. - hissing cockroach? - They make hissing noise when they get scared. - Wow, and they're from Madagascar? - They are from Madagascar. And they eat fruits and vegetables, so they're really good at recycling things out in nature. - Yeah. - And the things that keep us healthy also keep them healthy. - Yeah, we like fruits and vegetables. - Yeah. - For sure. Can try holding one? - Definitely. - Don't hiss. - That's Chuck. - Hi, Chuck. - He's got little bumps on the top of his head. It tells us he's one of the boys. - Wow. - You can see they've got six legs too, 'cause they are an insect. - All insects have six legs. - Exactly. (upbeat music) - like his little antennas. - He's smelling and feeling around. - Who's this person. I'm your friend, Caitie. Whoa, check out this guy, who's this? - This is Millie, our giant Asian millipede. - giant Asian millipede. Look how many legs. Does that mean that she has million legs because she's millipede? - She can have about 300 or 400 legs. - That's still lot of legs. 300 or 400 legs. - Her little toes help to hold on like little bristles on the toothbrush. - And they tickle. wonder how big can an Asian millipede get? - This is about as big as Millie gets. - She's pretty big. like her, it tickles. - Millie really likes to dig in the dirt. And she eats fruits and veggies. - Lots of fruits and veggies for insects. It tickles. Look at all those legs moving. Wow, Jen, thank you so much for sharing all these really neat bugs with us. - you're most welcome. Glad you could come and visit them. - It was lots of fun. - Bye. - In here lives tarantula named Rosie. tarantula is kind of spider. It says she's been living here for nine years and some tarantulas can live to be 30 years old. Let's see if we can find her. Where are you Rosie? There she is. She's hanging out in the back behind rock hiding. Hi, Rosie. In here, there's Asian bush katydids. They look like really big crickets. You can see their six legs. So that means they're an insect. And you can see the things that they eat, fruits and vegetables, just like Jen said. You have some sweet potato, some zucchini, and apple. Look, this is jade headed beetle because of the color green on its head. And it's eating, yum yum. Look at all these different kinds of beetles. Some are really small and some are really big. There's so many different kinds of beetles and new kind of beetle is being discovered every day. Isn't that amazing? These are called rhinoceros beetles. Can you guess why? Check out their horns. So many cool bugs. Wow, there are so many kinds of interesting bugs. It was so neat to see them up close at the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory. Those bugs are really interesting. wasn't too scared. Some people do feel scared around bugs. Do you know the story of Little Miss Muffet? She came across spider and then, well, why don't we look at the story together with the kamishibai? This is kamishibai. It's special form of storytelling from Japan. (upbeat music) And today's story is Little Miss Muffet. Little Miss Muffet, sat on tuffet, eating some curds and whey. Curds and whey, yum, yum. Along came spider who sat down beside her. "Hello, mind if sit here?" And frightened, Miss Muffet away. Where'd she go? Little Mr. Spider who sat down beside her was now eating the curds and whey. Along came his mother, his father and brother who said, "Share with us, okay?" Yum, yum, yummy. When they had their fill, they hopped to the sill and spun together web. It said, we hate to be rude, so thanks for the food. And with that, they went away. When Little Miss Muffet went back to her tuffet, she saw what the spiders did spin. look at that. And from that moment there she would never be scared of the spiders ever again. The end. Little Miss Muffet wasn't so scared of the spiders after all. really do like bugs, and like playing and exploring with all of you. had lot of fun today. It's time now to sing big goodbye to all our friends, but I'll see you again soon. Let's wave and sing. ♪ Bye bye, good bye ♪ ♪ Thanks for playing with me ♪ See you soon. (energetic upbeat music)