Showing posts with label life cycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life cycle. Show all posts

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Bugs!

Bug stamps from Oriental Trading. I have the kids use them to make patterns.

Counting by 10's on insect cutouts and writing the number words.



Using pattern block shapes to make insect artwork.

This is a really good book for teaching adjectives. 

Printable from Mrs. Lee. 


Idea from Mrs. Lee. Adding 3 numbers together.



Adding together 4 dice and writing on beehives. Printable from makinglearningfun.com

From makinglearningfun.com. Filling in a 100's honeycomb chart.

Our butterflies hatched! All five made it. The red cotton balls are sugar water dyed with red food coloring for nectar. The other reddish spots are not blood. They are from the butterfly's body, it is actually coloring for their wings. They pump the fluid from their middle section into their wings for coloring. Some of the coloring seeps out.

Journal entry from our Butterfly Observation Journal. Another student wrote  (phonetically),  " I see the butterfly sip nectar using it's proboscis". YES!! Success!


From makinglearningfun.com

Kids roll the dice, write the numeral then color the leaf the appropriate color.

This is a good one for the end of the year when you are just about out of ideas. Give the kids 2 dot dice, have them roll, add the dots together then write. After their grid is filled out have them color the numbers according to a color key (see below). They actually loved this!



Letting our butterflies go.

Observing the nectar, wing fluid and cocoons.





Saturday, May 7, 2011

Mammals, Moms and Amphibians

Counting by 5's. Each mammal had stickers on it, the kids counted by 5's and wrote the number.


Mammal/Not a mammal sort

Drawing/Labeling Mammals.


Painting bumps on toads.

Life cycle puzzles


I got these flags several years ago from Oriental Trading. on sale!

Toad/Frog Venn

Toad puppet

Mother Knows Best. Kids had to match the picture on Mother Kangaroo's tummy with the correct sentence then write the sentence.


Using various pictures and drawing/labeling animal pictures.

Some cute Mother's Day books.

Writing a note on why we love our Mom.

We made pots for Mother's Day. I wrote names of each child on their pot and "Kindergarten" .


Decorated bag to hold our Mother's Day pot.

I purchased some marigolds on sale to put in the Mother's Day pot.