Math Centers:
- Build fine motor muscles as you lace fruits and vegetables to "feed" the hungry caterpillar
- Create and identify a caterpillar pattern, then use your imagination to invent your own crazy bug
- Graph to compare the food eaten each day in Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Search the room for numbers 1-50 and circle the corresponding number on your sheet. Count how many you can find.
Lit Centers:
- Learn new vocabulary while creating a book of a butterfly's lifecycle.
- Practice fine motor skills as you trace a butterfly pattern. Use this image to fill in our letter of the week (J) as a capital, lowercase, word beginning with that letter, and picture of the word.
- Learn all about insects in the reading loft
- Find words associated with spring hidden throughout the classroom
Other Activities:
- Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
- Paint a colorful coat for Joseph to reinforce our Bible lesson
- Create a class caterpillar pattern using our handprints (find this in our hallway!)
- Graph "Would you rather be a caterpillar or a butterfly?"
- Make a Venn Diagram of similarities and differences between caterpillars and butterflies
- Look at tiny caterpillars in the classroom (soon to be chrysalis, then butterfly!)
- Visit the KSU Insect Zoo
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| Lauren enjoys a butterfly treat brought by a friend |
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| We practiced using one finger to pet so we didn't hurt the insects |
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| Charleigh waits to ask a question |
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| Tanner and Kaylee peer into a case of shed exoskeletons |
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| Hank wasn't interested in the millipedes... |
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| ...but then he changed his mind! |
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| Jade looks at the millipede all stretched out |
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| Cade touches a variety of roaches |
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| Alexa and Lauren gently pet the spider's thorax |
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| Each case held a different species |
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| A tube allows the honeybees to travel outside and bring back honey to their hive |
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| AM Class at the Insect Zoo |
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| Isabelle looks at the cockroaches |
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| Uh Oh! We found a rogue bug! |
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| Eek! We infested the museum! |
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| A case of insect parts were available to magnify |
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| Kacie and Hank enjoy lunch on the lawn |
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| We wait patiently to learn about insects |
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| Lydia and Keaton check out the leaf bug |
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| Ashley discovered it really does feel like a leaf! |
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| Thayer feels a stick bug's bumpy back |
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| Who is brave enough to pet the tarantula? |
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| Cameron looks at a variety of roaches |
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| Ayla uses the flashlight to get a closer look at the insects |
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| PM Class at the Insect Museum |
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| Lydia points out an insect hidden in the case |
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| Some of the girls enjoy lunch outdoors |
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| Nicholas, Eric, and Adrianna sit around an empty fountain |
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| Looking just like a bug! |
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| A microscope gave closer examination of insect parts |
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| Lydia squats down to examine each case |
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| Cameron looks at the magnification of an insect |
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| Nicholas plays with an oversized ant |
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| Keaton thinks about touching some of the specimens on display |
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