Our butterfly adventures ended this week. We released our butterflies at the end of our last day. It was the perfect way to end our week on Metamorphosis and our unit on Bees and Butterflies.
I shared the other week some egg-celent ideas (pun intended cuz I'm cheesy like that) from
Mother Goose Time as we studied the Egg in our Metamorphosis week.
But here are our faves from the rest of the week of Metamorphosis.
Caterpillar
Using our attribute blocks, my girl would roll a shape and we built the longest caterpillar we could naming each shape as we added to the body. Her favorite activity though was building the caterpillar from the cornstarch noodles (amazing! check them out if you haven't). MGT sent us a straw to make legs out of, but it would not stab into the noodles easily. So I cut up some pipe cleaners and those worked great.
We then took turns hiding the caterpillar and the other pretended to be a bird as we attempted to find the caterpillar. It led to some great talks about predator and prey.
Chrysalis
On our Chrysalis day, we discussed the letter "X". It was a great letter for that day, since we could make an X with our arms and hold ourselves pretending to be a chrysalis.
We made a pattern of the life cycle (I added the egg to our pattern cards below) of a butterfly, and my 4 year old drew it out. I was so proud of her drawing!
Butterfly
It's so hard to teach her with my 16 month old who wants to be into ALLLLL of the things. Lately I have been trying really hard to see what MGT has planned and how I can incorporate him into her lesson. Our butterfly letter game was the perfect opportunity. My son could throw the cube with our letter cards in it, and my daughter could use the butterflies and attach them to the flowers. Doing this outside even made it more fun for both of them! I try to take our learning outside as often as I can.
They both had a BLAST doing this activity.
Our butterfly day ended with us releasing our newest pets.
One amazing thing that happened was when we brought the carrier outside all the butterflies started to spread and open their wings. They never looked like this indoors. It is amazing how God designed them to know what to do. Some flew off quickly, others had to be coaxed, and one even crawled onto my girl's finger to be released. Definitely a cool experience for her and me.
What a great month of learning! I loved how we could go outside and see all the bees and the butterflies around us. In May, we will be studying Bubbles, Boats and Floats, and I will try to share a daily adventure on my FB page, so if you haven't followed me there, check it out :)
Happy Learning!
That's a cool big caterpillar!! Of course little brother wants to be involved. It's challenging to work with mixed ages but he is learning so much with his big sister! #MGTblogger
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