Butterfly Butterfly

Butterfly butterfly what lovely wings

Butterfly butterfly how my heart sings

Butterfly butterfly I'd like to know

when it rains, when it rains

where do you go?

Mimi: Behind a bush

Gracie: In a tree

Jack: To it's chrysalis

Ari: Home

Egg

Caterpillar  

  Chrysalis

Butterfly

We used our feet to create butterflies for our bug wall.

Morah Katie: We need to learn a new word when we talk about butterflies.  

 If we look at their wings, what to we see?

Gracie: They are the same.

Morah Katie: The wings are symmetrical, one side is the same as the other. If we paint one set of toes purple, what will we have to paint the other set?

Gracie: Purple!

By attaching vocabulary and new ideas to art, the children reinforce what is discussed at morning meetings.

Art also helps to refine small motor skills which increases a child's ability to accomplish tasks on their own. 

As the year progresses and my friends' attention spans develop,  more projects will contain multi-step instructions.  This approach utilizes skills and knowledge learned, and increases attention to detail and ability to focus on a task.

We put together a puzzle that had over 47 different butterflies and moths.

We discovered what butterflies eat.
Butterflies eat nectar from flowers, sap from trees and juice from fruits.
Jack: I think they eat pollen.
Morah Katie: When a butterfly lands on a flower it collects pollen on it's legs, and takes it to another flower. Like bees, butterflies help pollination.  
Morah Katie: How do you think a butterfly can drink the fruit from a fruit?
Efraim: Drink it.
Morah Katie: Butterflies have a feeding tube that helps them break the skin on fruit and get to juice to SSSSLLLLLUUUURRRRPPP it up. The tube is called a proboscis. Be a butterfly and show me your proboscis.

At lunch we discussed:
Sroli: I have juice.
Morah Katie: Can you drink your juice like a butterfly?
Sroli: (holding his juice box in hands) I just drink it butterflies just drink it.
Morah Katie: How? Do they hold a juice box in their hands and drink it through a straw?
Abigail: Butterflies  have hands!
Sroli: They drink it.
Morah Katie: Do you have a proboscis?
Sroli: No I just drink it SLUUUUUUUP 

Abigail: They use proboscis.  Why do butterflies drink all the apple juice?
Morah Katie: Do you like apple juice?
Abigail: I like apple juice. 

We used pretzels to make symmetrical wings next to our pear slices for snack.