Week 6

Things that fly - butterflies!

Butterflies go through many stages:

  • egg

  • caterpillar

  • chrysalis

  • adult

Joke of the Week

Where do butterflies sleep?

On a catterpillow!

What is a caterpillar afraid of?

A dogerpillar!

Let's read!

See Story Time core board on Family Resources page

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By Eric Carl

Asking when questions: (examples)

  • when did the sun come up?

  • when did the caterpillar eat an apple?

  • when did the caterpillar stop eating? (after...)

  • when did the caterpillar become a butterfly? (after...)

The Butterfly

by Anna Milbourne and Cathy Skimmen

Retelling a story: we need to tell the following things

  • who - characters

  • when - time

  • where - place

  • what happened - first, next, last

Lets make something

See Crafts core board on Family Resources page

Caterpillar Kabob

You will need:

Directions:

  • remove grapes from stems

  • put 6 or 7 grapes on each skewer

  • dab peanut butter for eyes

  • put on chocolate chip eyes

  • eat!

Caterpillar Life Cycle

What you need:

  • paper plate

  • dried noodles

  • dried beans

  • life cycle labels

  • twig

  • leaves

  • writing utensil

What to do:

  1. Draw 2 lines to make 4 sections

  2. Eggs

    1. write "Eggs"

    2. glue leaf and 3 beans

  3. Caterpillar

    1. write "caterpillar"

    2. glue leaf and pasta rotini

  4. Chrysalis

    1. write "chrysalis"

    2. glue stick and pasta shell

  5. Butterfly

    1. write "butterfly"

    2. glue bow tie pasta and draw antenna

Fruit Loop Rainbow

What you need:

Directions:

  1. sort colors into containers

  2. put 1 loop on pipe cleaner at a time

Tell about what you have on your string:

  • I have ___ (colors, numbers, loops)

Tell about what you see using the sentence stem:

  • I see ____ (circles, eyes, feet, picture, caterpillar)

Yoga for kids

STEM Project

Paper Tube Marble Run

You will need:

  • 11 Toilet paper rolls

  • Cardboard base

  • Tape

  • Paint

  • Glue

  • Marbles / Pom Poms

Directions:

Step 1 - Make towers

  • Tape 3 tubes together on top of each other


Step 2 - Make chutes

  • Cut three rolls in half lengthwise

  • Tape them in pairs end to end


Step 3 - Make rests for chutes

  • Cut holes in the towers for the chutes to rest in.


Step 4 - Glue together

  • Glue towers to the base close enough to support the chutes.