Butterflies and Insects

We fluttered through a wonderful week studying butterflies and bugs!  We had loads of fun studying the life cycle and body parts of butterflies along with a variety of fun facts about them and insects too.  We reviewed our letters and numbers 1-20.  We also finished up all our assessments with Mrs. Hannah.  We made some special gifts this week that you'll see at a later time, and we also created butterflies out of blobs of paint.  We talked about symmetry this week as well and talked about how butterflies are symmetrical.  Look for our fun butterfly symmetry crafts in the hallway!  Hope you enjoy a few pics and videos from the week! 

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Video

Butterfly Life Cycle Song

Counting to 20 Song

Count to 100 Exercise Video

 This little man was SUPER excited to be our Student of the Week this week! :)

 

 

 We talked about insects and made our own bumblebees out of the letter B.

 We did an independent assessment to show how well we can trace a diamond, square, triangle and circle.  Due to development of our brains at this age, some shapes are more difficult to create than others, but it's AWESOME  to see how much they've improved since the beginning of the year!

 Thank you so much to our parents who came in and weighed our kiddos and did their handprints for a portfolio entry page!  We appreciate your help!  (We also want to say thanks to the parents who helped make our pool noodle ponies that we'll use next week for our class Derby race.  Pics of those will come next week!)

 We also did a self-portrait and wrote our names the best we could for one of our portfolio entries too!  Our people drawings are starting to look like people!  Yeah!! :)

 We continued to work on our learning rings and finished up our end-of-the-year assessments as well.  These kiddos have come so far, and I really think narrowing down skills on our learning rings has helped us improve.  Thanks for your help at home!

We enjoyed some indoor playtime with friends...

  

 We had 1 friend who brought in her own butterfly wings to share with the class to go along with our special theme. They were beautiful!

 She took them outside and "flew" through the air with them. :)

 More playtime outside with friends...

We also enjoyed our snack outside in the sunshine this week as well.  This was a first for us, so it was a fun way to enjoy some sunshine. :)

Have a blessed week!