Butterflies

Today we read one of my all time favorite stories The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.  This story gave the children an insight into the life cycle of a butterfly.  During closing circle we reviewed this cycle by watching the following YouTube video http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+monarch+butterfly+life+cycle&mid=9A6964297C9549A8659E9A6964297C9549A8659E&view=detail&FORM=VIRE4

Today during centers the children had the opportunity to visit two out of four centers.  At Mrs. Severson's center the children were placed with a partner and given two sets of butterfly playing cards and two dice.  They started the activity by placing their cards in order from 2-12.  They then took turns rolling the dice and counting the sum of the dots.  They then flipped over their card with the corresponding number.  The player to have all their cards flipped over first won.

At my center the children completed the first two pages in the Butterfly Life Cycle book that we are making.  On the first page they glued a leaf and drew an egg on it.  The second page had the following sentence on it:  When the caterpillar hatches, he eats and eats and eats.  For this page the children used a hole punch to punch holes in the leaf to make it look like it was eaten.  They then used circle stickers to pattern a caterpillar on the leaf.