Butterflies
As we continued with our Eric Carle stories, we began to anticipate what would happen to our own very hungry caterpillar...
Of course, we expect it, too, to become a beautiful butterfly. We created another section of our insect lapbook to prepare for this exciting change.
Our finished lapbooks looked wonderful and we had so much fun putting them together. They included the life cycle of the butterfly, the predators and special defenses of the butterfly, and a great butterfly diagram so we could label all the parts of its body.
It was wonderful when we all realized that our caterpillar larva (which we began observing last week) had changed into the next stage of metamorphosis...the pupae.
Too cool!
We got our caterpillar lapbooks back out and documented the change in the journal.
We had some new activities in our basket of rug fun...
Like the many-colored butterflies for creating the longest of patterns!
The munchkins enjoyed the many different readable books the were available at the reading center about bugs and butterflies.
We had some art fun by creating our own colorful butterflies.
But what was the catch to this art-turned-science activity?
The butterfly had to have all the parts of a butterfly that we learned about during the week.
Like...
* four wings *
* two antennae *
* six squiggly legs *
* a head *
* a thorax *
* an abdomen *
and....
* a proboscis *
Bunches of beautiful butterflies!
So it was no surprise what our recipe would be for the week, but it was a surprise to see how we would create it!
Even our recipe creations had all the right body parts.
And they tasted just as wonderful!
Until next time,
Giggles...
Mrs. D.
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