Butterflies and Flowers

When we arrived at school on Tuesday we had a big surprise waiting for us.  Our caterpillars had spun their chrysalis.  Four of our caterpillars are now waiting to become butterflies! (One of the caterpillars didn't make it so we had a brief discussion about how sometimes that happens in nature.)

Our story today was a DK nature book on flowers.  Before we read it all the kids shared something they already knew about flowers and we listed them on our whiteboard.  We also discussed the letter F and the sound it made.  We had music with Mrs. Jenkins and worked hard on practicing the songs we'll be singing for our spring sing in May.  After music it was activity time.  

We used the letters from our name to make flower pots!

The kids had fun counting how many letters were in their first name and choosing the flowers they wanted to use!

On Wednesday we made a class terrarium.  We used dirt and pebbles to create a design and then planted 4 different kinds of seeds.  We worked together to create this class garden!  

During activity time Mrs. Chyko helped us use jewels and glitter glue to decorate our terrarium. We also had fun looking through several different kaleidoscopes.


It was so nice on Wednesday we went outside and played for about 20 minutes.

Thursday, we heard the story The Little Seed by Eric Carle.  It tells the story of how seeds grow.  One of our activities today was planting sunflower seeds.  The kids each used a spoon to scoop dirt into a cup, added 2 seeds, covered them up and used a watering can to give the seeds something to drink.  We put the cups on a window ledge to get some sunshine.

Some of our other activities included "the pony center", "the car center" and "the treehouse center".  Mrs. Chyko played a color game with the kids.

It was a little too cold and damp to go outside today.  We learned a new song called "The Boogie Walk" and had fun practicing that!  Here's the link to the music in case your child wants to practice it at home!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJW1lU0EZE

Last week we had fun creating caterpillars and butterflies based on Eric Carle's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  We heard a lot of other books about Butterflies during the week and enjoyed watching our caterpillars as they grew bigger and bigger from eating so much!  

We used balloons dipped in paint to create our caterpillars!

We did squish painting to create our butterflies!