living insects museum

Children are never too small to learn, actually is when they are small that they learn the most thanks to their huge curiosity and their open mind, which absorbs everything they see and experience. A small child is never tired of learning, and learning doesn't require any effort, it is between 2 and 6 years of age that children should be guided to discover any thing about our world...too often this extraordinary ability of learning is under estimated and wasted.
I can see how M. is able to learn and understand many things related to the environment, nature and the world.
Today I guided her curiosity for the natural world to the museum of the living insects. We saw a huge number of insects, from the one we see every day, to the esotic species, we saw reptiles and spiders. We saw insects that look like leaves, sticks, big and small. We saw how ants build their nests underground, and how bees work inside an hive. We saw some fossils and she asked me to explain what they were, I did and she was pleased with my answer.

Ants' nest underground