Outdoor Activity: Ride to another Park
Literacy/Science: Read "Can You Tell a Butterfly From a Moth?" by Buffy Silverman
Art: Butterfly and Moth Handprint Painting
Clean up Art Area, Steam Floor
Science/Art: Document Crystal Growth
Swim Lessons
Math (L): Counting Dots (while I'm cutting out the numbers to put on duplos for another activity)
How it went:
Outdoor Activity: Another successful outing to the park, this time to meet friends and play.
Literacy/Science: We read the book (concepts covered will be below), the kids liked it. RJ paid more attention than L.
Art: Both kiddos enjoyed making their butterflies and moths. I painted their hands following their directions and then they used their hands to form the wings of the butterflies and moths. Not unexpectedly, L quit after printing his butterflies, when RJ went on to make moths too. We also discovered that apparently fairly new black tempera paint can explode and smell like sour milk. I shook the (less than a year old) bottle and when I opened it, it basically shot out and sprayed my neck (thankfully missing my face) and continued to bubble out when I ran to get a rag to clean it up. I've never had that happen before!
Crystal Growth: Unfortunately we did not get around to this today. RJ looked at it, but didn't document.
Swim lessons/Math: The boys have back to back lessons (unfortunately they couldn't fit them into classes at the same time), which gives me a little time with each of them when the other is in class. When RJ was in his class, L matched capital and lowercase letters. I had planned on him drawing and counting dots, but he was more interested in the letters and I was able to keep cutting out the words and numbers while working with him that way. When L was in class, RJ worked on the Harry Potter Math Sheet. I was hoping he would finish it, but he stopped after 4+4, so we will have to continue with that later. He ended up drawing a little and playing with other kids waiting.
Butterfly Concepts Covered:
Outdoor Activity: Another successful outing to the park, this time to meet friends and play.
Literacy/Science: We read the book (concepts covered will be below), the kids liked it. RJ paid more attention than L.
Art: Both kiddos enjoyed making their butterflies and moths. I painted their hands following their directions and then they used their hands to form the wings of the butterflies and moths. Not unexpectedly, L quit after printing his butterflies, when RJ went on to make moths too. We also discovered that apparently fairly new black tempera paint can explode and smell like sour milk. I shook the (less than a year old) bottle and when I opened it, it basically shot out and sprayed my neck (thankfully missing my face) and continued to bubble out when I ran to get a rag to clean it up. I've never had that happen before!
Crystal Growth: Unfortunately we did not get around to this today. RJ looked at it, but didn't document.
Swim lessons/Math: The boys have back to back lessons (unfortunately they couldn't fit them into classes at the same time), which gives me a little time with each of them when the other is in class. When RJ was in his class, L matched capital and lowercase letters. I had planned on him drawing and counting dots, but he was more interested in the letters and I was able to keep cutting out the words and numbers while working with him that way. When L was in class, RJ worked on the Harry Potter Math Sheet. I was hoping he would finish it, but he stopped after 4+4, so we will have to continue with that later. He ended up drawing a little and playing with other kids waiting.
Butterfly Concepts Covered:
- Butterflies and moths look alike
- Adults have 4 wings
- Wings are covered in tiny scales
- Scales give wings their colors
- Butterflies and Moths are insects
- Adult insects have six legs
- Tell butterflies and moths apart by their colors
- Butterfly wings are bright
- Moth wings are dull
- Usually gray or brown
- More kinds of moths than butterflies
- Butterflies fly during the day
- Moths fly at night (usually)
- Most are noctural (active at night)
- They tend to fly near porch lights
- Butterfly folds wings up at rest
- Moths spread wings at rest
- Butterfly body is skinny
- Moth body is fat and fuzzy
- Insects have antennae
- Use them to feel, taste, and smell
- Butterfly antennae have knobs on the ends
- Moth antennae do not have knobs and can be feathery
- Wave their antennae to smell flowers
- Moths and butterflies use antennae to smell for a mate
- Butterfly unrolls a long tube and pushes it into a flower to eat
- Tube is the butterfly's mouth
- Sips nectar (a sweet liquid) from the flower
- [I asked RJ what the tube was called and he recalled "proboscis"]
- Moths eat the same way
- All insects start life as eggs
- Caterpillars hatch from butterfly and moth eggs
- Caterpillars eat leaves and grow
- Caterpillars molt (shed old skin and have new skin underneath)
- Molt many times as they grow
- [Asked RJ how many times. He recalled 4 from the other books]
- [Based on pictures we noted that moth caterpillars were fuzzier than butterfly caterpillars]
- Moth caterpillars hide under leaves or soil when done growing
- There, they spin a cocoon
- Cocoon is made of silk
- Covers the caterpillar tightly
- Inside the cocoon the caterpillar sheds its skin again
- Grows 4 wings and six long legs
- Changes into a moth
- Butterfly caterpillars attach themselves to a leaf or branch with a strong silk button
- Hangs upside down from the leaf
- Molts one more time
- Hard shell called a chrysalis forms around it
- Inside it changes into a butterfly
- Butterflies and moths fly in gardens, meadows, and woods
- Some spots on butterfly or moth wings fool creatures that eat them (like the pictured moth whose spots look like owl eyes
- Caterpillars also rick some hunting birds and insects
- Tiger swallowtail caterpillar looks like bird poop, so other animals leave it alone
- Older tiger swallowtail caterpillar has spots on its back looking like eyes, making it look like a snake
- Monarchs taste bad, so they are avoided
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