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Busy Week

Sunday, April 27, 2014 No comments
It has been all kinds of CRAZY in my classroom the past couple of weeks.  We have been watching with wonder the life cycle of our Painted Lady butterflies.



We also started our plant study.
We planted some grass seed and the kids were excited when they started to grow.




We read these books about the parts of plants:

After reading the books, we labeled the parts of a plant and made the flip book that tells what each part of the plant does.



If you want some more plant ideas, 
you can check out some of my old posts:

We have 25 days of school left.  We can do this!



Bugs on a Log

Friday, April 13, 2012 4 comments
We finished up our butterfly/moth study this week with a little butterfly sipping experiment.  The students used their butterfly proboscis (straw) to sip nectar (apple juice) from a flower.



After we did this little experiment, the students had to come back and write what they learned about how butterflies eat:


Here were some of our centers this week:
Matching time to the hour and half hour.

 Unscramble the butterfly sentences:

Sort butterfly nouns and verbs: 

Next week, we are learning about insects so I will be carrying over some of the activities that are in my Butterfly Bonanza unit.  All the above activities are included in this unit and you can check them out by clicking on the picture.


For our writing center next week, the kids will be making "Bugs on a Log" and writing a "how to" telling how they did it.
These are my old posters that I used for this little activity (back when I literally cut and pasted everything!)


These are the ingredients you need to make "Bugs on a Log":


Now that I am becoming adept at using the handy dandy laptop, I have updated the old posters into these:


After they make their "Bugs on a Log", they will write how to do it on this sequencing/writing form:
Grab yourself a copy by clicking on one of the pictures above.
To make these posters, I used:  Graphics From the Pond http://frompond.blogspot.com

Happy Weekend Friends!




Butterfly Bonanza Winner

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4 comments
The winner of my Butterfly Bonanza unit is . . .  Tabitha!  Congratulations!


I had 12 people enter and I thank all of you for your interest and your comments.  One entry was through an email and she was the 6th person to comment so I plugged her in as number 6.




My coworker had her baby today and he is one beautiful baby boy!  I got to drive over to the hospital and hold him!  Ya'll she taught school today until around 2ish and decided her contractions were close enough that she might need to go home and call her Dr.  She had him at 5:42!  Wow!
Congratulations to Rikki and John Lally and to Abby and Emily on the arrival of Jack Thomas!

And, in their honor (and since I am having all kinds of warm fuzzies right now), I would like to give this unit away to the first person who comments on this post. 

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

Butterfly Bonanza Giveaway

Thursday, April 5, 2012 11 comments
Okay, my butterfly loving friends, I just finished my Butterfly Bonanza unit and it is posted in my TpT and TN store.  There is a ton of stuff in this packet so I will be using this for two weeks in my classroom.  You can check it out by clicking on the pictures.

And . . .
I will be giving this away to one lucky winner.
You can enter twice by:
1) following my blog
2) following my TpT store

Leave me a comment saying you're a follower,
along with your email and
I will pick a winner on Wednesday evening, April 11.

I wish you and your families a happy and blessed Easter!