Butterflies

This week is all about butterflies and their life cycle!  There are always some very cute art projects with caterpillars and butterflies!

As a science experiment, the Pre-K class decorated coffee filters and then watched the color diffuse to the rest of the coffee filter.  They then turned these into beautiful butterflies!

As a sensory and manipulative activity, theses cuties made a butterfly using pattern blocks!  Such great team work!

How funny is this?!  While talking about the butterfly life cycle, they had one child turn into a chrysalis!

The week wouldn't be complete without reading Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".  The Waddlers and Toddlers made their own caterpillar.  For our cooking project, we made Fruit Dip that the caterpillar might want to eat with all the fruit he enjoyed!

The 2's made a great art project as they learned about how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.

We always have fun talking about symmetry during butterfly week!  These butterflies turned out beautiful and served as a great math lesson for Pre-K!

Our number of the week was 7 so the Waddlers made 7 butterflies using their fingerprints!

We had fun with giraffes, goats, and grapes for our letter of the week! 

Now that we've learned all about the life cycle of a butterfly, we are so excited to get our live caterpillars in to start watching their transformation next week!  We will be sure to post pictures of our butterflies!