Preschool Corner ~ Butterflies

Butterflies and more butterflies ~ we had a fun week learning about butterflies and their life cycle.

Letter of The Week

We made a B is Butterfly

and Aiden practiced writing upper case Bs. 

Book and Craft

We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

Our craft was a Caterpillar to Butterfly.  I cut an elongated oval from a folded sheet of brown construction paper, leaving the fold intact.  Aiden painted a caterpillar on one side  

the other side was left brown, to represent the chrysalis 

and he painted a butterfly on the inside.

When we finished our craft we munched on some butterfly pretzels.  To make them dip pretzels in chocolate and then prop them up (like a tent) to dry. 

Lapbook

We put together a Butterfly lapbook.

One of Aiden’s favorite lapbook activities was feeding The Very Hungry Caterpillar as we read the book.

Math

Aiden had fun playing with the Butterfly Number Matching File Folder Game I made. 

Click on the image to download. 

I hung the butterflies from the ceiling

and Aiden caught them with a butterfly net.  As he pulled them out of the net he told me the color of the butterfly and how many spots it had on its wings. 

After he caught them he matched them to the flower with the correct number.

Science

We read From Caterpillar to Butterfly and made a Life Cycle of the Butterfly.  Little green pop-poms represent the eggs 

a pom-pom caterpillar

a chrysalis, which the kids made using an Easter Egg.  They covered the egg with Crayola Model Magic, adding a screw hook at the top to hang it, let it dry, and then painted it brown. 

The butterfly is also made out of an Easter Egg.  The kids made sure we adding the proboscis, so he could drink.
We attached everything to a tree branch that I hung on the wall.  (The tree branch didn’t last long, but the kids have enjoyed playing with the Butterfly Life Cycle.)

A couple of weeks ago we purchased a new butterfly cage from Lowes and it came with a certificate to order caterpillars (Painted Ladies).  We order our caterpillars right away!  God showed his perfect timing this week ~ as we were finishing up our butterfly week, two of our butterflies emerged from their chrysalis.   

Butterfly Races

I printed Penny Butterflies for the kids and they competed to see who could balance the butterfly the longest and walk the farthest without dropping the butterfly. 

Aiden’s Pick For The Week:

Playing games on Daddy’s Ipod Touch ~ educational of course! 

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~Cindy