Week 7:

We can only keep the butterflies for a few days, so we released them into the butterfly garden that we have in front of school. A special shoutout to our friend, Dana, for documenting our butterfly release. She was a parent in kindergarten last year and was kind enough to return again to help us out!

We ended our week by identifying our mystery butterflies. We used an identification website where you can narrow down butterflies based on their attributes. We narrowed it down to 4 different possibilities. Then we looked at each butterflies entire life cycle (egg, larva, pupa, adult) to figure out which one best matched our observations. We decided that we had Painted Lady butterflies!

Writing

We've started incorporating some drawing lessons into our writing time. We focused on people and how you can show emotions and actions with different details. We also discussed how shapes and lines play an important role in illustrating. While this is all happening, the students are still encouraged to label objects in their pictures with their beginning sounds.