Life Cycles Week One
This week we introduced a new theme to focus our
homeschooling activities around. As I’ve mentioned with Caterpillar Counting
and Butterfly Painting, the new theme is Life cycles. This week we focused on
butterflies specifically. Butterflies felt like a good starting place since the
life cycle changes are so dramatic.
We talked about the four stages of the life cycle and how it
really only flows one way. “Do butterflies go into cocoons?” Chobie just
laughed and shook his head no.
I found a few butterfly songs and poems to share
together. I’ll admit that these aren’t
great poetry, but they do get the point across. There isn’t enough repetition for
it to be excellent for preschoolers, so I don’t think that Chobie will actually
pick up the words to the songs. In fact, after we did the one to the tune of
Row Your Boat he just went around singing that all day.
We acted out the butterfly life cycle. I got the idea here.
I embellished this a bit with scarves for wings and lots of
running around the house. Chobie loved doing this part, especially that it
naturally repeats so he got to do it again and again.
Our books this week were…
The Very Hungry Catterpillar by Eric Carle.
Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert
We are working on a butterfly mobile, featuring some free
printables I found here.
A few more things were pinned and completed, including this
fun (and free) life cycle stages activity.
We did some letter writing on the board. Chobie is making good progress,
especially with letters that are just made up of straight lines.
We worked on the concept of measuring using colorful
paperclips to measure toys around the house.
We also completed the caterpillar clip counting activity and
butterfly painting that I posted about earlier this week.
Have you done a life cycles unit? What kinds of activities
did you do?
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