A Closer Look

Today we took a closer look at butterflies.  I was able to get real butterflies from The Butterfly House near St Louis. The kids loved using the magnifying glasses to look at the wings, antenna, and proboscis!  

Next, we went on a butterfly hunt.  I had planned to do this outside but we had storms pass through last night and left everything too muddy.  We still had a great time!

You can get the butterflies and graphing paper along with a more challenging graph in my

 "Butterfly Life Cycles and More" unit in my TpT store.

Then we made a MESS!!!  We experienced what it is like to be snug inside a chrysalis and then transform into a beautiful butterfly.

I linked up with this wonderful blog.  Click here for more great butterfly ideas!

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Chicken Life Cycle Week!

This week will be all about the chicken life cycle.  The eggs arrived and the students are sooooooo excited!  One of my little guys even said he had been waiting his entire life for this! I am totally addicted now to blogging and TpT.  The creative juices were flowing over spring break.  Here are some of my new products in action!

We have mastered counting but number writing is still challenging for some of my kiddos.

  I made this fun number practice activity for them with a twist of science!

  Oviparous animals!

Chicken life cycle puzzle. 

They built the puzzle, drew it on the white board and acted it out today! 

Egg sorting by color.  Group game today, center activity tomorrow. 

 Most of my students have this concept down but there are a few

 that need the extra practice.

My students have been hooked on memory games and are getting really

 good at them.  I thought it was time for a different game. I made a game for

 them called "Go on an Egg Hunt".  It's a variation of the classic game "Go Fish".

  They LOVED it!  

More Froggy Fun!

 Feed those frogs!

I introduced this activity as a group game.
 Students were given a frog tongue with flies.
 When I called out a number the students counted the flies
 on their tongue then hopped to the
white board to tape it to the corresponding frog.
 I then moved it to a pocket chart for individual practice during center time.
 Check it out at my TPT store!

I am being begged to make a memory game now for
 every theme we learn about!
Introducing "Frog Life Cycle Memory"!

Frog Life Cycle

Short week this week, snow day on Monday and spring break Thursday and Friday! 

 Today and tomorrow we will be learning about the frog life cycle. 

My kiddos were so proud when they built the frog life cycle on their own!

Don't you just love it when those unplanned teachable moments happen!
  I had not planned this activity.
 I caught her drawing frog eggs and tadpoles on the white board and it lead to this!

Some frog themed rhyming!

You can get my "Frog Life Cycle and More" activities at my TPT store.
Just click on the photo above.

All kids love Easter eggs!  We sorted today by color.
Tomorrow I'm going to put various objects inside them and have the students sort by sound!