Storytime, week 5
Oct. 7th, 2007 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This week both Mark and Dawn (my co-teachers) were out of town, so I had two parents in to help. The story was The Very Hungry Caterpillar -- a classic book! -- and the activity was making caterpillars out of egg cartons and pipe cleaners. Very fun. Then popcorn and apple juice for snack.
We closed by going through the life cycle of caterpillars and butterflies -- you know, pretend you're an egg, then hatch and crawl around, then wrap silk around yourself and become a chrysalis, and then hatch into a butterfly and flap your wings as you run around. It's good to have activities that let the kids run around a bit. Also, I got to ask the kids what kind of food they ate as caterpillars, and what colors they were as butterflies... because many kinds of butterfly are species-specific in what they can and will eat, which is one reason there are a lot fewer butterflies around these days. It's hard for them to find the right plants.
We closed by going through the life cycle of caterpillars and butterflies -- you know, pretend you're an egg, then hatch and crawl around, then wrap silk around yourself and become a chrysalis, and then hatch into a butterfly and flap your wings as you run around. It's good to have activities that let the kids run around a bit. Also, I got to ask the kids what kind of food they ate as caterpillars, and what colors they were as butterflies... because many kinds of butterfly are species-specific in what they can and will eat, which is one reason there are a lot fewer butterflies around these days. It's hard for them to find the right plants.