Butterflies!

We completed our last week of our butterfly unit this week, and will be moving onto bubbles, boats, and floats next month. This butterfly unit has been so so much fun! Mother Goose Time has done such a wonderful job putting together great activities to go with the butterfly theme. One of our very favorite days was definitely the day we spent studying the butterfly stage of the lifecycle.

Our first activity was making these wonderful butterfly lifecycle plates.  The kids had so much fun using beans to make the different stages of a butterfly.  They turned out so cute! These required quite a bit of my attention, but the kids made it their own with their coloring and gluing.

One of the main lessons from this day, was a lesson on symmetry. A butterflies wings are symmetrical, and this activity helped the kids realize just what that meant. I created a pattern of shapes, provided by Mother Goose Time, and the kids were to repeat the shapes on the other side to create perfect symmetry.  We used this time to talk about how we are also a bit symmetrical, with two eyes, ears, cheeks, etc.

This was one of my very favorite activities this week. The kids were to roll the pocket cube, put their butterfly on the matching flower and I had them write the letter they rolled onto the big butterfly. This activity was great because it had them distinguish between capital and lowercase letters. Practicing their writing is always important!

Another big event in our house this week was our caterpillars turning into chrysalides! We actually got to watch part of one, and I got a great video of it happening! We have had so much fun with this whole project and the kids are really invested in learning all about it.

Thank you, MGT, for another great week in homeschool!