Monday we had quite a surprise!
When we arrived, we noticed that our caterpillars had completed their change!
We had four Painted Lady Butterflies!
The children were so excited!
I didn't mention it to them, but as they came in each one came over to check on them and the gasps and "Oh My Gosh's" were just too cute!
We completed our Observation journal. The children did a fantastic job being scientists and using their eyes to observe our caterpillars as they changed.
They have continued to observe the butterflies each day- I love today when one student said "I see it drinking with its proboscis!" Way to remember vocabulary!!
Then we did an activity that integrated both science and math. The children were given several different animals and asked to sort them into different categories. The categories were hop, fly, and swim. We talked about how different animals move and compared the different ways that animals can move and thought about how our caterpillars movements changed over time. When they were caterpillars they crawled, but once they became butterflies they can fly and walk. We also talked about the kinds of movements humans can make and compared them to different animals.
After the students had a chance to sort their animals, we made a chart on the smartboard to check our animals. I love the inventive spelling!
Another fun activity that we did was compare and contrast Butterflies and Moths. We read the book Butterflies and Moths by Nic Bishop. Our Let's Find Out this week also had a great chart comparing the two. Afterwards, we worked on this graphic organizer together on the smart board. Graphic organizers are one of my favorite ways to recall information from a text. It is an especially good way to remember facts from an informational text. Here is a sample of what we came up with! Again, check out that great spelling!!
For those of you who are not savvy in K-1 spelling, here's the translation :)
Moths sleep with their wings open and fly at night.
Butterflies sleep with their wings closed and fly in the day.
Both start as caterpillars and have eyes and wings.
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