Books We Read
Houdini the Amazing Caterpillar
From Egg to Butterfly
Weekly Centres
Butterfly Books
After learning about the butterfly life cycle, we practiced writing our butterfly words and drew a picture of each stage of a butterfly's life. Some of us used the word tracers, but most of us were willing and able to try the words freehand, even big words like "caterpillar" and "butterfly".
Dice Prediction
Using a similar table to the one we used in Sight Word Beyblade Arena, we predicted which number would show up most on a dice. We recorded our prediction, then rolled the dice, and checked our prediction against what happened. We then told Mr. McCullough what we thought would happen next time based on the rolls we did.
Camping
Our drama centre was turned into a campsite, where we built fires (Lincoln Logs & construction paper), caught fish, slept under the stars, and had all sorts of "outdoor" adventures. There was even a tent!
Snap Cube Garden
Using snap cubes, we created flowers with green stems, and then had "blossoms" made of white, blue, yellow and red cube. We then tried to join all of our flowers together to make a garden.
Other Things We Did
We did "Butterfly Yoga", starting off as an egg, turning into a caterpillar, standing up into our pupa, and then turning into a butterfly.
Our caterpillars continued to grow, and we saw how some of them had shed their skin again to grow even bigger!
Mr. McCullough brought us "Milk Fireworks", which involved filling a pie plate with milk and dropping food colouring into it. Then, we added hand sanitzer, which caused the colours in to swirl into all sort of patterns. We learned that milk and food colouring are both mostly made of water, and that alcohol (which is in sanitizer) can thin the water out, making it move. We also learned that adding more water to water doesn't make it move, unless you do something like add hotter water or push the water along.
The Gardening Comittee recruited us to help clean-up the Kinder Garden area. We took turns sweeping up wood chips and putting them back into the play areas.
We learned about solar power, using a solar powered butterfly, which would only fly around if there was sun. We learned that, for solar power to work well, there can't be a lot of clouds, you should be outside, and that temperature doesn't really matter, only a clear sky.
We learned the difference between the "ar" and "er", creating words with the "ar" and learning that the "e" in "er" isn't pronounced!
We had a "Card Making" session on Friday for those who wanted to make Mother's Day cards.
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