Happy Friday the Thirteenth!
When I brought my arabian jasmine plant into my classroom for the winter, it had a hitchhiker on it: a small house spider. I like spiders when they are small and in some contained area. They eat bugs, which is a great feature. Anyway, I’ve been a little worried about this spider because there haven’t been any bugs for it to eat since I came inside. How long can a spider go without eating? Do they just hibernate or something?
Yesterday, there was another box elder bug in my room. They are so annoying. The kids freak out when they see them and I have to catch them or squish them or something. And if I squish them, someone always feels sorry about it and wishes I wouldn’t have done that. So instead of squishing it, I put it in the spiderweb. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a house spider move so fast. It was one-fourth the size of the bug, but it kept working until the bug was immobilized. The sixth graders were fascinated. And no one felt sorry about it.
Yay! You saved Charlotte! Will your kids now bring in all kinds of bugs that they find? Could you start an ant farm for a steady food supply? *Jibblie* – too much like “V”.
So did Mr. House Spider gooble down the entire bug in one sitting…or is there various pieces left of Box Elder for another day? (I think this qualifies you to teach Science)
…people gobble down food…insects gooble…as Lauren would say, Don’t bother fact checking…
We had a jumping spider in my classroom a few years ago. We named him Elmo, and he stuck around for a few weeks, then one day he was gone.
He would range all around the room, and watching him crawl over the walls was a great way to avoid listening to the well meaning, but generally slow witted instructor.
My comment got lost because I’m an idiot who doesn’t understand code.
I was going to say that jumping spiders are adorable and send you all to this page: http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/01/jumping-spider-eyes.html
*jibblie*
Yea, those 2009 spiders – love the bug-eating feature almost as much as the intermittent wipers and the fog lights…
…and I agree: you’ve done choir accompaniment in the upper school, math mastery, religion across the middle levels – you seem ready for your next conquest: teaching science all day. Join the club! Debbie is a wealth of student worksheets and fun activities – you could be the resident bug guy (I would have typed entamologist if the red squiggly line would ever go away as I changed how I spelled it)! [So the kids might not get every academic subject regularly any more – one could not have too much science in his day, could he?]