This week my computers were not working, so I had to go with a backup plan. We learned about the life cycle of a butterfly. We read about it and wrote about it. I originally had planned for my students to describe and illustrate pictures about the life cycle and later on in the week they were going to create the life cycle out of grains/pasta. However, since we did not have access to computers I had to implement a new center. That's where our butterfly of a life cycle concept comes it. Instead of a technology center, I had a science center. In this center the students created the life cycle of a butterfly out of the following grain/pasta:
Rice: Egg
Spiral Pasta: Caterpillar
Shell Pasta: Chrysalis
Bow Tie Pasta: Butterfly
The students loved this and were definitely engaged in the idea of the life cycle of a butterfly. Of course, I tied it into our learning as they were reading and writing about the life cycle of a butterfly.
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