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, that we added to the middle of a symmetrical butterfly we created, 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.
Monday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Introduced to the life cycle of a butterfly by watching a couple of videos
Listened to the story, Busy Butterfly
Introduced to our new words, so, them & get
Read through our emergent reader, The Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Completed a Butterfly Life Cycle worksheet
Colored a buttery picture
Listened to the story, The Very Impatient Caterpillar
Completed a Build a CVC word - Short u worksheet
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Played Dice Addition Game
Religion:
Gospel Weekly- reviewed the story of Easter and listened to the story of doubting Thomas
Tuesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Listened to the story, Caterpillar to Butterfly
Reviewed the life cycle of the butterfly
Wrote a description of the butterfly we colored yesterday
Mixin’ & Fixin’ short a worksheet
Completed a Boom Game (on the iPad) - CVC words
Listened to the story, The Little Butterfly That Could
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Reviewed addition and subtraction on the number line
Completed a number line worksheet
Religion:
Completed 3 pages in our Promise workbook
Wednesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a short a scrambled word worksheet
Completed a Boom Game (on the iPad) - Sentence Picture Match
Listened to the story Caterpillar to Butterfly
Reviewed the life cycle of a butterfly
Colored, cut out, and glue the stages of a butterfly life cycle in order - Then attached it to the symmetrical butterfly we cut out.
Listened to the story, Goodnight, Butterfly
Painted an abstract watercolor picture
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Introduced to symmetry
Created a symmetrical butterfly using paints by folding a paper
Reviewed number bonds
Introduced to number bonds with missing numbers
Completed a number bond worksheet
Thursday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Listened to the story Butterflies
Identified facts about butterflies
Introduced to action verbs
Completed a Mixin’ & Fixin’ short a worksheet
Completed a Sentence Scramble worksheet
Completed a Boom Game (on the iPad) - Middle Vowels
Butterfly art project - we glued a butterfly outline on a an abstract watercolor picture we painted.
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Birds on a Wire (ten pairs - 2 numbers when added together equal 10)
Religion:
Listened to the story of Moses in the Rushes
Watched a video of St Thomas the Apostle (Doubting Thomas) and colored his picture
Friday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Completed a short e scrambled word worksheet
Completed a Sentence Scramble worksheet
Listened to the book, Hermie the Common Caterpillar
Watched the movie, Hermie the Common Caterpillar
Compared and Contrasted the book and movie
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Subtraction Easter Egg Hunt Activity
Religion:
Mass