Tuesday May 19

Creative Exploration
· Bug Catcher—Make a container to help you observe bugs more closely. Find a container you can see through and is easy to get bugs in and out without hurting them. Be sure you have a way for the bugs to get air. Decorate it if you’d like.

· Fingerprint Bugs—Dip your fingers in paint, color them with marker, or press them on an ink pad. Stamp your fingers on a paper. After your fingerprints dry, add legs, eyes, and antennae. If you’d like, you can print this page of a jar to put your “bugs” in.

Literacy
· Word Wall—Print this word wall in color with pictures or print this black and white version and add your own illustrations for each word.

Read Aloud—The Very Grouchy Ladybug
Grouchy Ladybug Feelings Wheel—Print the feeling wheel and write or draw a picture in each section or trace around a paper plate on a piece of paper. Divide the circle on the paper into four sections. Write “I feel grouchy when…….” In one section. Write “I feel happy when….” In the second section. Write “I feel sad when….” In the third section and write “I feel excited when….” In the last section. Cut out the wheel and glue it to a paper plate

Paint another plater red and add spots. When the red plate dries, cut it in half and attach it to the plater with the feeling wheel. Add a head, eyes, and antennae to your ladybug.

Wednesday May 20

Creative Exploration
· Insect Costume - Can you make yourself an insect costume? Gather materials to make antennae, compound eyes, wings, and 6 legs.
· Be the Bug - You can wear your insect costume if you made one! Think of different types of bugs you have seen. How did they move? Imagine you are a bug and move around the room or yard. Can you flutter like a butterfly or moth? Buzz like a bee or dragonfly? How would you move if you were a grasshopper, centipede, or pill bug? If you want some ideas print this page and cut them apart.

Literacy
· Read Aloud—Under One Rock by Anthony D. Fredericks.
· Swat the letter/sound/word-- Write letters/words on the sidewalk or on post-its around the house. After you recite what you want the student to find, they can use the flyswatter to swat the answer. Change it up and say a sound and have your child swat the corresponding letter.
· Word Wall Writing—Use your word wall to practice writing some of the words that are most interesting to you.

Numeracy
· Bug Count—Print this bug scavenger hunt. Go outside and count how many of each type of bug you find. Write the totals in the squares.

OR

· Bug Count—divide a blank piece of paper into 6 squares. Write one type of bug in each square. Go outside and count how many of each type of bug you find. Write the totals in each square when you’re done.

Cooking Project
· Ants on a Log - Wash and dry a stick of celery. Use a butter knife to cut it into 3 or 4 sticks. Spread peanut butter or other nut butter in the “cup” of the celery. Place raisins down the center. Enjoy eating your ants on a log!

Edible Bugs - collect small food items such as paper carrots, peas, grapes, small tomatoes, pretzel sticks, ect. Use your snacks to create different bugs before eating them.