Caterpillars!

It's that time of year....when winter just won't leave and you try anything to get spring to arrive, including studying the butterfly lifecycle!

I'm trying to do more thematic things in my classroom and did the following things this week:

Received 5 caterpillars (one for each team) to observe

Listening Center: Houghton-Mifflin 8.3 story Butterfly

Listening Center: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle

Storytime: read several non-fiction books about the lifecycle

Did a scavenger hunt which lead to making a word bank poster for the lifecycle

Did a sequenced writing activity about the lifecycle

Did an art project to illustrate the lifecycle

Here are some great resources I made:

Sequenced Writing Activity

Readers' Theater Play

Scavenger Hunt stuff