Ants have the most complicated social organization on Earth next to humans. - Edward Osborne Wilson - Our journey of our ant inquiry has been increasingly interesting. We capture the trails of discovering more and more of ants and their living environment. After days of ants living inside the mason jars with a mixture of sand and soil, it is time to figure out how their journey of building home of their own takes place. "The ants are moving", Vivaan notices attentively. We notice the ants are busy moving. As a result of their busy movements, we are curious to make connections between our observations and our pondering mind. We attempt to come up with some thoughts upon, "what do we think they are busy working on?" "The ants are finding something", Vivaan reiterates when asked the above question. Luna shares an interesting idea about the relationship between ants and their possible home. After rotating, sometimes turning upside down, the ant jar a few times, Elie thinks she has discovered more than 20 tunnels. "Tunnel here, tunnel there", she describes when her eyes carefully follows the direction of each line. "My ants have nose" (left) and "This one is mommy ant" (right) - Brooks. In addition to drawing parts of ants' bodies, Brooks includes other details as well as both side and aerial perspectives. Felix transfers his understanding of the long ant tunnels onto a piece of paper as the medium. He and friends are seen to collaboratively draw on lines, curves, arches, and spaces as a collective space to exhibit ants building their tunnels. During our observation of ants, we frequently encounter many other insects. When a quiet ladybug catches friends' attention, it silently slows our steps down to look closely. Hudson is mesmerized to be in the moment, and when the ladybug chooses to fly shortly, he serenades the ladybug song with his melodious voice. Learning from the cooperative ants we adapt this value into our social relationship. When we need to work on some situations, we relate to the process of working together. We learn to share our empathy when we notice something doesn't seem right with the ant. A valuable sharing of empathy has been thought over by Felix by saying, "Maybe we should bring to the hospital". Our inquiry of working with ants may take a different turn as of now. Elie has concluded our journey with a few points to carry forward like "ants eat fly eggs" and "they're working together to carry the fly eggs". When Manpreet asks what we have learned from, Elie continues, "It's good if we work together". Thank you Elie for thinking through and carrying this value on your relationship with us always! We look forward to celebrating another important in our life - to dedicate our gratitudes to our dads! We are working on sharing ideas, prior to making the arrangements. Including songs we can dedicate to dads as our expressions of love and thankfulness. Kindest,
Children & Friends.
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