The Touch and Feel Pool was full of BUGS this morning! There were all kinds of spiders and insects for the children to explore. Some were easy to identify.....and others, not so much. Not to worry, though, our kiddos made up names for every bug! You should see "ice bug" and "big tooth bug".... super scary stuff!
Just in case the kiddos mention it....it's totally true....two, yes TWO....bugs made an appearance during our morning circle.....much to the teacher's dismay. Real bugs.....that unfortunately we didn't take time to explore. They caught us way off guard.....but served as a great introduction into our new topic this week!
Ms. Michelle was here today! She had a fun obstacle course for us to crawl through. There were two tunnels, and at the end of each tunnel, a ring toss activity. At the very end of the course, each friend took a turn with Ms. Michelle and practiced drawing horizontal and vertical lines. There were also three finger fun stations. The kids matched patterns with block, built with sticky blocks, and found treasures in a container of dried corn.
Today's book was The Crunching Munching Caterpillar by Sheridan Cain. Caterpillar REALLY wants to fly like Bumblebee and Sparrow, but he can't. Bumblebee tells him he needs wings, and sparrow tells him that he's too fat. So, Caterpillar sadly spends his days crunch-munching his way through the blackberry bushes. But, after a long winter sleep, he wakes up to the surprise of his life... he has turned into a beautiful butterfly!
For our language chart, we made a list of all the facts (or true things) that we know about insects. They have three body parts (head, abdomen, and thorax), six legs, antennae, and hatch from eggs. We learned that worms and spiders aren't insects because in order to be called an 'insect' you have to have these things.
Art was all about making our own caterpillars. We glued three pom poms on popsicle sticks....to represent the three body parts of insects. Then we practiced re-telling our friends the facts we had learned. There was caterpillar naming, pretend caterpillar play, and all sorts of caterpillar interaction happening around the art table!
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