The Kindergarteners are learning about life cycles. We have talked about the life cycle of an apple, a pumpkin, a spider, and a penguin. This week we learned about the life cycle of a butterfly. All butterflies start out as tiny eggs that turn into caterpillars. They live as a caterpillar for about 2 weeks before it spins a chrysalis. When it is in the chrysalis, it changes into a butterfly. We also learned some interesting facts about the Butterfly. Did you know that butterflies have their taste sensors in their feet? Some butterflies only live about 4 or 5 weeks and others live up to 9 months. Butterflies can’t fly when it is cold out, so they migrate to warmer weather in the fall. We found out that butterflies have symmetrical wing patterns. This week we created the butterfly’s life cycle using noodles, wrote a description of a butterfly we colored, and created a symmetrical butterfly picture. We also compared and contrasted the story and the movie Hermie: A Common Caterpillar. Hermie was a common caterpillar except that he talked with God and God answered him. We ended the week by spending the day at church working with the actors of Climb Theatre to learn about advocacy, empathy, and respect.
Monday:
No School - Easter Break
Tuesday:
Reading
Introduced to the life cycle of a butterfly by watching a couple of videos
Listened to the story, Caterpillar to Butterfly
Completed a Butterfly Life Cycle worksheet
Listened to the story, The Very Impatient Caterpillar
Introduced to our new sight words, some & this
Looked through our new emergent reader, The Life Cycle of a Butterfly, for “Secrets”
Read through our emergent reader, The Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Mixin’ and Fixin’ short i worksheet
Math
Calendar
Introduced to subtraction on the number line
Completed an number line subtraction worksheet
Religion
Happy Easter - Talked about the Easter Season
Watched Brother Francis: He is Risen
Wednesday:
Reading
Word Unscramble worksheet - short i
Wrote a description of the butterfly we colored yesterday
Listened to the story, Caterpillar to Butterfly
Listened to the story, The Little Butterfly That Could
Created a Butterfly Life Cycle using noodles
Math
Calendar
Introduced to Number Bonds
Thursday:
Reading:
Word Unscramble worksheet - short i
Listened to the story, Goodnight, Butterfly
Listened to the story, Butterfly Garden
Butterfly art project - we glued a butterfly outline on a an abstract watercolor picture we painted.
Math
Calendar
Introduced to estimation
Religion
Gospel Weekly- reviewed the story of Easter and listened to the story of doubting Thomas
Listened to the book, Hermie the Common Caterpillar
Watched the movie, Hermie the Common Caterpillar
Compared and Contrasted the book and movie
Friday:
Climb Theatre
Watched the play - Polka Dot Shoes
During the break out session we worked on Advocacy, Empathy, & Respect
Religion
Mass