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Caterpillars!

 Yay! Welcome back! I hope you all had a great spring break and were able to relax a little bit! We kicked off our day with exploring some small plastic bugs. Why do you ask? Well right before break I ordered some caterpillars and an accompanying butterfly garden so we could watch the life of a butterfly right before our eyes. The kit is pretty awesome and includes many different learning materials, but the favorites were the plastic pieces that indicated each part of the life cycle. The boys used these pieces in some floam! 

As they looked at each piece and then buried in the floam they began using some of the same language. As you can imagine the butterfly, caterpillar, and egg were by far the most engaging. 





At the end of the day we revisited our live caterpillars before settling in to watch "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to being to connect some of the same ideas. The two pictures before are what they look like about a week ago! The growth these things have made over the last 7 days is amazing to watch. If you are interested in your own butterfly garden, you can go here. 





Our little caterpillars are on their way to becoming beautiful butterflies! 

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