Some fabulous facts about ants from this essay challenge entrant from Phil & Hannah’s home state of Maine: “Dear kid, Please don’t kill the ant! They just have 45-60 days to live! They only take crumbs, and why would you need any crumbs? Ants just need food to feed their colony. Exactly, like you need… Read more »
Author, Phil Hoose and educator & long-time Hey, Little Ant advocate, Rita Rubin Long appeared on Maine Public Radio to discuss the history of the book and The Hey, Little Ant Essay Challenge. Listen Here!
From a 2nd Grader in the beautiful South: “The boy should not sqishe the ant. If they switced the boy would not like to get killed. The boy is killing nature. ants are a part of nature. The ant’s would not like it. Let the ant live.”
All of these amazing thoughts keep coming in from kids across the country. This from a second grader in Washington– “I think the kid should let it free because I care for the environment and when I grow up I will be a scientist and I will stop people from cutting down trees. I care… Read more »
The Maine Sunday Telegram wrote up a nice piece about the Hey, Little Ant Essay Challenge. The article by Ray Routhier featured Phil Hoose’s visit with the swell kids at the Friends School of Portland. Quoted from Article: “When I was younger, when ants would come out of their house, I would squish them,” said… Read more »
From a thoughtful second grader: “I think the boy shouldn’t squish the ant because he should think about his actions. He should think about how it would feel to be like the ant. What if he was the ant and the ant was him? If the kid hurts the ant and the ant had a… Read more »
Thanks to all the great work that Prof. Patricia Dean at Salisbury University has doing to promote the Challenge, entries have been pouring in from Maryland. This from a third grader — “I think the kid should leave the ant alone because ants are like people too, except they are tiny, red or black, they… Read more »
This great second grader answered the challenge with: “Hey little ant, The kid says, “”I didn’t see you there!”” He cups his hands and the ant climbs in. The kid lowers the ant by the nearest anthill. Soon his friend asks him why didn’t you squish it? “Well, if you were a ant would you… Read more »
This advice came in from a third grader in Florida today– “The ant should bite the boy and run away. He is a little tiny ant and he can run faster than the boy. Then he would alert his friends.”
The Hey, Little Ant Essay Challenge went international today with the submission of amazing essays from a third grade classroom in Alberta. “I will not harm you little ant. I will let you go back to your family and your little town too. I will not do what the other kids think. I will not… Read more »