Insect Unit

We have concluded our super fun (and yet sometimes creepy) insect unit! Here are some examples of the work we have done and some of our favorite memories during the unit.

During our unit, we brainstormed FACTS that we knew about insects, asked questions about what we wanted to know, and wrote down what we learned. I used up TWO pieces of large poster paper with all of the things we learned. 

At the beginning of our unit, we went on a nature walk to look for insects. While we found quite a few chickens, we only found a few insects. :(

Luke and Jack worked together to try to find some insects. 

These boys found a dead fly (yup, an insect) in a spider web (nope, not an insect).

I think they may have found something!!

Landon had something crawling on him! Some of us might not have had such a happy face with a creepy crawly on us! 

Later, during the week, we worked with our Sight Word “said”. We made living sentences, which means each student became a word in the sentence and as we read the sentence, we acted out the quotation marks and comma with our bodies and we gave them special swoosh and click sounds. I should have taken a video! 

We created books using speech bubbles. This was such a hit!

Could you imagine a bug that big?!

We rolled two dice to find their sum in “Ladybug Addition” hanging on our windows. 

After learning about the body parts of a butterfly, we did a directed draw where the students followed step by step instructions on how to draw a butterfly. After they added details and colored it, the students added labels to each of the body parts. Many of the students were then able to record facts about butterflies. That video is coming... it is super tricky to get a video off of the iPad on to the blog :(

After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we made very hungry LAST NAME caterpillars! They came out so cute! Some of the kids have verrrrrrry long last names which make for very long caterpillars. Also at this center, while the paint was drying, the students learned how to measure objects using a caterpillar inch ruler. In case you are wondering, the piano is 47 inches wide!

We had a great 3 weeks learning about insects and are continuing to enjoy observing out caterpillars transforming in to butterflies. Please check back to see our daily observations on a separate post.