Insects and Fish

We are beginning learning about different types of animals.

We learned about insects on Monday in our room and fish on Tuesday in Mrs. Irvin's room. 

I started with - 

What makes an insect an insect? 

Why are we not insects? 

These seem like easy questions, however, the answer I kept getting was "because it's an insect" or " because we can't be an insect" but no one could verbalize exactly why. 

We learned that in order to be an insect an animal must

*have 3 body parts 

*have 6 legs

*have antennaes 

Insects also are invertebrates and have an exoskeleton. 

Why is a fish a fish?

Why aren't you a fish? 

Again getting them to verbalize why was harder than you think. 

We learned that 

*fish have gills

*fish live under water 

*fish lay eggs 

*fish have scales