“At Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory, we offer a weekday Words & Wings Storytime in the winter for young children and their families. This story has become one of our favourites, and we include it with the theme/topic of “walking gently” and respecting all life around us, even the small lives. We do a small activity where… Read more »
Some may say we are making a mountain of of a mole hill, but we beg to differ. Anthill by E.O. Wilson is a mountain of a book be you human or ant. E.O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction author, Harvard entomology professor, and friend to Hey, Little Ant has created a stunner of a coming… Read more »
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 »
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 »