A cassette/songbook or CD/songbook including 19 of Suzy's songs in a singalong format can be ordered from the AIMS Education Foundation Product Catalog.
Hatch, hatch little egg,
I'm so very small.
Teeny tiny caterpillar,
You can't see me at all.
Crawl, caterpillar, crawl,
Munching on a leaf.
Crawling, munching, crawling,
munching
Eat and eat and eat.
Form, form chrysalis,
I'm a different shape;
Hanging by a silken thread
Until I can escape.
Rest, rest, chrysalis,
While I change inside;
Now at last my time has come
To be a butterfly.
Stretch, stretch, pretty wings,
It's a special day;
Soon they will be strong enough
For me to fly away.
Fly, fly, butterfly,
Fly from flower to tree;
Find a place to lay my eggs
So they can grow like me.
An insect has three body parts,
No more, no less than three:
Head and thorax, abdomen -
It sure makes sense to me!
The head has mouthparts well
designed
And compound eyes as well.
Antennae sense the world around:
They feel and hear and smell.
The thorax is where legs are joined
Three pairs, six legs in all;
Two pairs of wings, or one, or none,
To fly or jump or crawl.
The abdomen is where are found
The systems that it needs
To breathe, to reproduce, digest
The food on which it feeds.
An insect has three body parts,
No more, no less than three:
Head and thorax, abdomen -
It sure makes sense to me!
I love to look at the wide world around
me,
On land and in water and up in the
skies.
But there is a tiny world I'm now
discov'ring,
A world that I can't see with just my
own eyes.
The tiniest plants live in one drop of
water;
The smallest of insects once hid from
my view;
All sorts of things that I never would
notice
Live in a small world that I never knew.
Even the small parts of big things I
know well
When seen through a microscope are
a surprise:
Colors and patterns and wonderful
textures--
Sometimes I just can't believe my own
eyes!
My microscope is a window for
watching:
The tiniest things I'm now able to see.
Small plants and creatures to watch
and to wonder--
A world of discovery waiting for me.
Ladybirds have spots or stripes
They're yellow, red or green;
They love to live where there are
weeds;
Around the world they're seen.
They're in the beetle family
And that is no surprise,
Though some folks call them "ladybugs"
Or even "ladyflies."
They lay their eggs upon a leaf;
Their larva is quite small
With little legs; the pupa stage
Hangs on a leaf or wall.
Their favorite food is aphid pests--
They eat a lot each day;
And from their legs a fluid comes
That drives their foes away.
Wach beetle has six jointed legs
With which it walks or clings;
It also has two separate pairs
Of very special wings;
The first pair is quite hard and tough,
Protecting what's below:
Transparent wings that it can use
To fly where it should go.
About a hundred years ago
An awful insect pest
Was spoiling California's fruit--
The farmers had no rest--
Till someone had a great idea
And from Australia came
A beetle that would save the crop:
The ladybird by name.
Return to top
of page
Return to
Course Materials
Return to
Insects in the Classroom Home Page