Caterpillar or Worm?

Hello, 4K Families! Today the children listened to the story titled, Bob and Otto. This is a story about a worm and a caterpillar. Throughout the story, the worm wanted to change into a butterfly. The caterpillar started to make its chrysalis and the worm went down in the dirt and was digging holes. At the end of the story, the caterpillar turned into a butterfly. The worm was sad that he couldn't change into a butterfly. The caterpillar told the worm that he has an important job because he dug holes in the ground, which allowed water to get to the tree, then the water went up the truck and allowed the leaves to grow. If they leaves hadn't grown, he wouldn't have been able to become a butterfly. After the worm heard that, he was happy that he was able to help his friend.

We also talked about how caterpillars are different from worms. We learned that worms do not change into something different, but caterpillars change into butterflies. We also talked about how worms have no legs, but a caterpillar has 16 legs. The children helped us put legs on our classroom caterpillar today! 

The children visited their last center today.

At the first center, the children created their own caterpillar and put it to sleep in a chrysalis. We will check in a couple of weeks to see whether or not our caterpillars turned into butterflies. Children at this center also counted out one circle for each letter of their last name and added a circle head to create a caterpillar. They practiced creating a color pattern out of the circles. Once the caterpillar was glued together, the children wrote one letter of their last name on each circle and added facial details, as well as antennae.

The second center colored coffee filter butterflies. Then they sprayed the filters with water to see how the colors bleed together. Once dry, we will cut out the butterflies and use them in a book about the life cycle of a butterfly on Thursday.

The third center read some books about ladybugs. One book was a fiction story about a very lazy ladybug. The second book was a non-fiction story about ladybugs that helped us learn some new facts. Then each child made a special ladybug. Inside was a secret number. The children had to count out and glue the correct number of dots on the ladybug's wings to correspond with their secret number. Afterwards, the children had to find a friend or teacher to try to trick. They had a lot of fun trying to find someone to guess their secret number!

During playtime, the children continued to work on some special secret projects.

During snack, the children made dirt cups. The children helped us make the pudding. They also had to crush up Oreos. They added their Oreos and a gummy worm to their dirt cup. The children enjoyed this special snack - and it helped to reinforce our learning about how worms are helpful because they help plants to grow by digging tunnels to help water reach the roots of plants!

During closing circle, the children did the counting jar. In the morning the children had to guess how many smarties were in the jar and in the afternoon the children had to guess how many fruit loops were in the jar. We had some very good guessers!

Have a wonderful evening! :)