The Fir group explored one of Francine's inquiry. She asked: "Is an inchworm a crawling creature?" Maddi added: "I see inchworms on strawberries." Most children thought inchworm is a kind of worm. So you could imagine the surprised look on their faces when I told them that inchworm is the name for the larvae of geometer moths. Jason immediately said: "Hey, it's just like the caterpillars! It's the larvae of butterflies!"
They are called inchworms because they are usually about 1 inch long and can be green brown or black. To imagine what it is like to measure our bodies with inchworms, we cut 1 inch long pipe cleaners to measure our body parts. The children giggled as the fuzzy pipe cleaners are placed next to their arms or hands.
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