What does our snail want to eat?

The children have been enjoying observing our classroom snail. Many of the children wonder what our snail eats.

We added leaves, bark and two flowers for our snail to eat but we didn't know what it liked best so, we decided to do an experiment.

We took our snail carefully out of its home and put a leaf and a dandelion next to it. We waited and watched. Slowly the snail turned and moved towards the dandelion. We watched as it started to eat the dandelion. 

The children in both classes decided that we needed to go and find more dandelions for our snail because that was what it wanted to eat. So we put on our jackets and headed out to the classroom gardens.

We found dandelions AND we found another snail!!!! We carefully brought the snail back into the classroom and added him/her to our snail home. 

What do you wonder about our classroom snails?