Buzzing into Bug Week (Threes)

Our classroom was “buzzing” with excitement this week as we learned about insects and butterflies!  

We had lots of art fun, making our own insect diagrams (to go along with learning about the parts of an insect) and learning about symmetry with butterflies. We even got to show our creativity by creating play dough insects! We did a lot of counting and number practice this week, including measuring the length of butterfly wings that we painted, counting bugs into a jar, and graphing insects. We also enjoyed an insect hunt and a beetle letter hunt around our room!

We continued our “made new” Bible theme this week with continuing to talk about how God changes our hearts and makes them more beautiful (just like a caterpillar to a butterfly) when we decide to follow Him. 

We read several nonfiction books about the life cycle of a butterfly, the parts of an insect, and types of insects. We also enjoyed several fictional books, including our favorite of the week, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.We learned a new insect song, as well as a new butterfly song. 

This week, see if your child can do the following...

1. Tell you what sound the letter B makes and two words that start with that sound. (We did a B is for butterfly and B is for bugs chart.)
2. Explain the life cycle of a butterfly. 
3. Count to 25.
4. Tell you a fact about an insect (such as how many legs or how many parts it has). 
5. Sing the butterfly song that we learned!

Painting is so fun!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly!

Such careful work!

Our sensory bin was full of insects!

Our class is full of the best readers!

Best friends looking for insects!

We are playing together so nicely!

We had fun graphing insects!

What a cool caterpillar!

Counting insects in a jar.

Someone was very careful at measuring!

Someone is a fast counter!

This sweet girl found all the insects!

We love reading!

Who knew making butterfly art
could be so much fun?!

Teamwork!

We got to "hatch" insects in water!

Buzzing Through Insect Week! (Kinder Prep)

Our room was buzzing with excitement during insect week! We had a blast learning all about insects! On Monday, our focus was butterflies and their life cycle. We created the butterfly life cycle out of our fingerprints and hand prints, learned several fun songs, and practiced our color words with butterfly coloring. We also had time for independent reading with all kinds of awesome insect books from the library and learned about symmetry with butterfly wings! We even got to go on a bug hunt around our room!

Symmetrical butterfly coloring!

We know the butterfly life cycle!

Color word writing practice!

We had fun investigating bugs
in our sensory bin!

Reading with friends is so much fun!

Searching for sight words is fun!

Finding all the bugs!

Teamwork! 

On Tuesday, we discussed the parts of an insect. We learned two insect parts songs and created our own diagram of a bug! See if your child can remember one of our bug parts songs. We also had fun with the book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly! as well as going on an insect yoga adventure! We worked on addition using our insect catching jars and measured our butterfly wingspans with counting cubes and bears. 

Wednesday was full of more fun, creating insect graphs and talking about different types of insects. To go along with our theme, we read the story Hermie the Common Caterpillar and discussed how we are a new and beautiful creation when we believe in Jesus. We continued to practice many skills, including ending sounds, color words, subtraction, addition, and counting by 2s to 20. 

Insect graphing!

Making symmetrical butterflies!

We had fun coloring our insect books!

We are ready for graduation!

Bridge Class

We had a great time finishing our beautiful paintings in another painting class with Mrs. Rose this week. We extended our insect learning by talking about all kinds of insects, including ants, ladybugs, and walking sticks! We made bumblebees out of our handprints, as well as insect popsicle stick puppets. We continued to practice ending sounds, writing our letters, measuring, and counting. We also had some science fun with insect wings by talking about static electricity. The days fly by in Bridge!