Go outside with a grown-up and look at a small leaf pile, shrub bed, or quiet corner of the yard. Do not dig through it with your hands. Look carefully for little signs of life: beetles, ants, tiny spiders, chewed leaves, soil tunnels, or bird scratch marks.
Draw what you notice. Add a small Thrash in your picture and show where he might flip a leaf to find food.
Think About It: What might happen to small insects if every leaf pile disappeared from a yard?
Grandma’s reminder:
“Thrash is not making a mess. He is checking the pantry.”
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Name:
Thrash’s Leaf-Litter Search
Go outside with a grown-up and look at a small leaf pile, shrub bed, or quiet corner of the yard. Do not dig through it with your hands. Look carefully for little signs of life: beetles, ants, tiny spiders, chewed leaves, soil tunnels, or bird scratch marks.
Draw what you notice. Add a small Thrash in your picture and show where he might flip a leaf to find food.
Think About It: What might happen to small insects if every leaf pile disappeared from a yard?
Grandma’s reminder:
“Thrash is not making a mess. He is checking the pantry.”
☐ Go outside with a grown-up and look at a small leaf pile, shrub bed, or quiet corner of the yard. Do not dig through it with your hands. Look carefully for little signs of life: beetles, ants, tiny spiders, chewed leaves, soil tunnels, or bird scratch marks.
☐ Draw what you notice. Add a small Thrash in your picture and show where he might flip a leaf to find food.
☐ Think About It: What might happen to small insects if every leaf pile disappeared from a yard?
☐ Grandma’s reminder:
☐ “Thrash is not making a mess. He is checking the pantry.”
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