Buggy Week

  This week our theme is bugs!  Yesterday we read a non-fiction book about insects.  Then, we sorted pictures into two groups: ‘Insects’ and ‘Not Insects’ and completed a ‘are’, ‘can’, ‘have’ chart on insects.  These activities are from the pack It’s a Bug’s Life created by Julia Powell from Loving and Learning in Pre-K.  I will be using more of Julia’s activities the rest of this week!

 

  Today, we had a very exciting day!  Using the Mystery Box pack by Babbling Abby, I created the Mystery Box and put a special surprise inside.  Using the 4 clues I provided, the girls ‘predicted’ what might be in the box.  After each clue was read I recorded their guesses on a circle map (from Abby’s pack).   Can you guess what was in our box?   Clue 1: You find them in the outdoors Clue 2: They like to eat leaves Clue 3: They are types of bugs Clue 4: They change into something new!   Yeppers…you guessed it: CATERPILLARS!

 

We received our live caterpillars from Insect Lore on Monday and I saved them for our lesson on Tuesday.  Wow were the girls excited! 

After revealing our special surprise, we read and acted out The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

{these are our props for the VHC- created by a friend of mine}

We also created this fun craftivity from Pre-Kinders

Source: google.com via Ashley on Pinterest

 

So far it has been a buggy fun week!