Week Thirty-One: Bug or Insect?

Theme: Insects
Insects have Six Legs, Two Antennae, a head, abdomen, thorax, and most have wings.

Letter: I
We practiced the two sounds letter "I" makes. We met "Ida Insect" who played a game with us. Ida Insect needed help from each of the kiddos to find a picture with either "I" sound that I instructed them to find.

Choosing Time: Bugs, Cootie, Letter "I" Memory, An "igloo"/"island" Game to practice both "I" sounds, Build An Insect Game

Science:

1. Our caterpillars are now Chrysalises. We are excited to see them become beautiful butterflies. We discussed the life cycle of the butterfly.
   
2. We went on a bug hunt. We found centipedes, worms, ants, slugs, & snails. Sadly, we couldn't find any roly-polys , ladybugs, or box elder bugs... We brought them inside to examine them with a magnifying glass. We also found some IVY--not the poisonous kind :)
   

Show & Tell:
Letter I--
Insect Catcher--
Butterfly:
Picture of him eating his favorite ICE cream:
Insect Book:
Infant brother:
Springtime Seeds:

Snacks:

• Homemade Applesauce & Peanut Granola Bars
• Oreos, Doughnut Holes, & Goldfish Crackers
• Ice Cream Cones filled with Island Fruit
• Fruit Leather, Dried Blueberries, & Cheese Ladybugs
• Chocolate Mint Cookies
• Popcorn, Strawberries, & Marshmallows
• Letter "I" cookies --gobbled up so fast I didn't get a picture
  

Music & Movement:

• Bug Movements: roll like a roly-poly, jump like a grasshopper, crawl like a caterpillar, fly like a butterfly, click like a beetle (and the dying beetle movement), Jump like a cricket, buzz like a bee, and flutter like a lady bug.
• Ants Go Marching
• 10 "Ninja" Exercises
• Sequence patterns: I demonstrate a clapping/slapping pattern and then the children do it with me.
• I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream for Ice Cream!
  

Math: We focused on the number Six. We counted many bugs legs to see if they were insects or not.

Game: Bug, Bug, Who's the Bug in the Rug?

Books:

• What Can Insects Do?
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle I made a caterpillar/butterfly puppet to tell the story (the kiddos call it a "magic trick")
  

Art:

1. "I" Insects
2. Butterflies--good cutting practice!
   

Reading: Some new words this week include: igloo, insect, in, ice cream, ice, iguana, & ivy.

Writing: We practiced "I(Straight line down, a hat, and boots)/i"

Birthday Celebration: We love the birthday dance!