Showing posts with label Butterfly Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Butterfly Week. Show all posts

Sunday, July 18, 2010


I've decided to use Theme weeks with Brody. Our first week is the Butterfly. We started the week by catching a butterfly with a net and putting it into a butterfly house. We then soaked a cotton ball with sugar water. We took a magnifying glass and watched the butterfly uncoil its proboscis and drink the water. I explained that the butterfly is using its proboscis like a straw. We then pointed to the major parts of the butterfly; the wing, legs, head, and antenna. We then used our fine motor skills to paint two drawn pictures of a butterfly. Once dried, we glued to two sides with a craft stick in between. We also added a black pipe cleaner for the antenna. Throughout the week, I reinforced that part of the butterfly and used the word "antenna" as our weeks vocabulary word.