Caterpillars and Butterflies

Todays was so much fun! We read The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and then acted it out. We talked about the life cycle of a butterfly and then drew a diagram of it. (Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly). Then we watched a video of caterpillars turning into butterflies. (On you tube if you type in caterpillar turning into butterfly a whole bunch of good videos come up, we only had time for one but I bet your kids would love to watch a few more at home!).

Finally, we looked at our own real live caterpillars that Mrs. Gould brought in. We have 5 very tiny caterpillars right now that need to eat and eat and then turn into chrysalis'. Then they should become butterflies. We set up a butterfly garden in school to watch as this happens. Everyone was so excited to see the real caterpillars!!

It was so nice to see the sun so we went outside and blew bubbles. We had a lot of fun chasing the bubbles and trying to pop them! For snack we had celery, apples and raisins that we turned into a butterfly! We had a graham cracker to go with it. We had lots and lots of fun looking through books after snack today. We read with one another for almost 15 minutes!

We started making butterfly placemats today. We painted a sheet of paper with water and added colors and watched them bleed together. We also cut out 3 butterflies and decorated them. Tomorrow we're going to put it all together and then get it laminated so we can use it as a spring placemat!