<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Mrs. Abbott's first-grade class spent three weeks watching mealworms turn into beetles, and on April 1 they released <br />
them into nature.<br />
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<img width="230" height="173" title="Bug Release" alt="Bug Release " src="/cms/lib/FL01903687/Centricity/Domain/5111/BugReleasePhotoByJaniyaBoyd.jpg" /><br />
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By MRS. ABBOTT’S FIRST-GRADE CLASS</strong><br />
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Who:</strong> First-graders in Mrs. Abbott’s class.<br />
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>What:</strong> They had mealworms in a net container in their classroom for three weeks. They turned in to beetles.<br />
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>When:</strong> They released the beetles into the grass the afternoon of April 1.<br />
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Where:</strong> Outside in the grass by the picnic tables<br />
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Why:</strong> “We wanted to release them into nature so they could have enough air and stay alive,” said Andrew Boatman.<br />
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Wow:</strong> “(My favorite part was)looking at them in the glass magnifying cups so I could see how many bodies there were,” <br />
said Taniya Bell.</p>