We started off by talking about the life cycle of a bee. I used Suzie's Home Education's nomenclature cards and bought figurines from Michael's.
Ava wanted to know more about the honey bee so I printed out Carrots Are Orange's parts of a honey bee cards.
Next we discussed the life cycle of a butterfly (my favorite). We used lifecycle cards to match the figurines. It's always nice when you can combine the concrete with the abstract. You can't cover butterflies without reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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| Lucy tried her hand at matching the life cycle figurines to the cards. |
We discussed the parts of a butterfly. We used the Pinay Homeschooler's nomenclature cards.
Ava made her own parts of a butterfly booklet.
The last activity that we did on butterflies is matching wings.
Last but not least we talked about the life cycle of a ladybug. Interesting story, about a month ago the girls and I were outside and Ava wanted to go down her slide but said there were spiders all over it. I went over to the slide to discover these (pictured below) crawling all over her slide. I assured her they weren't spiders and tried to clear them off. The next day we went outside and again they were all over their play set. This time I did what any curious person does these days...Googled this interesting bug. To my surprise I found out that they are the larvae of a ladybug. I learned something too.
Ava was excited to see a part of the ladybug life cycle she recognized while using Trillium Montessori's ladybug life cycle cards. (Sign up for her blog and receive the freebie)
Ava made her own ladybug life cycle booklet too.
