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Today, we planted Petunia seeds, Lobelia and Butterfly Bush.

If you know, we got a spoon and put some dirt in it and before we did that we, of course, got a bag of soil and poured some water in and stirred it up by shaking it. And then, we put some seeds in. We put them in a pots and we put the pots in the germination bag.

The water evaporated but since they are in the germination bag it couldn't come out. So when we looked it looked like hundred of drops on the bag, but when we open it up the water will evaporate off. When we open it up the plant will be one inch big. We'll take the plants out and put them in the sunlight. Also, today, when we were planting, we stopped planting and started to catch a big black spider. We wanted to kill him but in a way he wouldn't feel it. We put some alcohol in a cotton ball and put it in the jar and he would fall asleep and die and wouldn't even feel a thing. And, of course, we found two snails. We have them in another jar where there is tons of dirt, because you know snails love dirt, and we want to keep those snails so we can see how strong they are by tying them to sticks and rocks and stuff. And also, we are going to make them have snail races.




The Ants

Friday, we caught some ants. How did we catch them? We got some sugar,

a grape,

a blueberry pancake,

and a potato

and put them on the concrete outside. But that was just to see what would attract the ants best.

The answer is THE SUGAR!!


So now we learned that ants like sweet things. Then we found out the way to catch them. The way is to get a spoon of honey

and put it beside the bed and the ants will smell the honey. And they will come out and get on the spoon. But when we see the ants are on the spoon we pick it up and dump it in the jar with the honey for the ants to have a little snack. We took the ants to a jar where we put leaves, a little water, some grapes and some nice good soil and dirt for them to have a healthy home and wrapped it in foil so the ants will think they are underground and dig.

We think most ants build parts of their hives underground. Just think in your mind if ants were human and their hives, the underground part, are like you walking into the basement. Of course, I am excited to take the foil off of my ant farm on Thursday and see the work the ants have done.

See ya later ALLIGATOR...