The caterpillars are finished! Thank you so much for supporting your kids by hanging the caterpillars up at home. The kids were so excited to work on this each day because they knew they got to go home and display their work.
Along with the caterpillars, we worked some more on sight words this week. One activity that they loved was bean bag spelling. Each student was given a word and a bean bag. They had to toss the bean bag onto the correct letters on our alphabet rug to spell the words. They had a blast and it really helped the words stick in their minds. Some of the words we have been working on are: and, a, I, am, was, were, she, and the. As you are reading at home, give the kids opportunities to identify these words in the story!
Monday was all about ants. We played this game called 'Ants in My Pants' and also 'Ants on My Plants'. The game was so simple, but worked on so many skills! We put their fine motor skills to the test as they tried to pick up the ants one by one. We put their counting to the test to count how many ants they had picked up (often 30 or more) and we talked about words that rhyme with 'ant'.
Wednesday was about flies. The kids had tons of fun with our SEEL lesson on flies. Their favorite part was this poem. It was one that I'm sure they would love to do again at home!
On Friday we talked about ladybugs and did a little ladybug math. The kids did a great job at gluing on the right number of spots and adding them together to solve their addition problem.
We also used playdough and other items I had around the house to make our own bugs. They had tons of fun with it and were so creative. There were several times when they were stumped by how to make things like a mouth or ears, but they worked together, shared the supplies and helped each other figure out what to do!
On Friday we said goodbye to our butterflies. Most of the kids were a little freaked out about the idea of the butterflies touching them, so we just sat around their cage and watched them fly away!
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