Interesting facts about butterflies:
- Butterflies can't hear, but they can feel vibrations
- Butterflies taste with their feet
- Butterflies smell with their antennae
- Female butterflies are usually bigger, and live longer than male butterflies
- Like crabs and lobsters, butterflies have skeletons on the outside of their bodies (exoskeletons)
We read:
Gotta Go! Gotta Go! by Sam Swope
Belinda the Butterfly's Beautiful Colors, by Lynn Morris
Caterpillar Dance, by Will Grace
We read a feltboard story:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
We sang:
The Butterfly Song (Tune: "Up on the Housetop")
First comes a butterfly and lays an eggm
Out comes a caterpillar with many legs,
Oh see the caterpillar spin and spin,
A little chrysalis to sleep in.
Oh, oh, oh, wait and see,
Oh, oh, oh, wait and see,
Out of the chrysalis, my oh my,
Out comes a pretty butterfly.
The Fuzzy Caterpillar (Tune: The Itsy Bitsy Spider)
The fuzzy caterpillar
Curled upon a leaf,
Spun her little chrysalis,
And then feel asleep.
While she was sleeping,
She dreamed that she could fly,
And later when she woke up,
She was a butterfly!
Next, we made our craft!
Materials:
- coffee filters
- clothespins
- markers
For snack, we had some yummy grapes! See you next week!
