Good morning, Kindergarten! Today is Tuesday, April 21 st . Before we start today’s lesson, I want to remind everyone that sometime today you should be practicing reading on Raz-Kids, your math on either IXL or Khan Academy, depending on whose class you are in, and working on writing. You should be doing each of these things for approximately twenty minutes. Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Witoslawski, and I are excited to see all of your hard work!
Today we’re going to be learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. We’re going to start by listening to a read aloud of the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. This is a fiction book about a caterpillar who is super hungry so he eats and eats and eats. Then, at the end of the book, something amazing happens. Let’s listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btFCtMhF3iI
By the end of the book, the very hungry caterpillar wasn’t a caterpillar anymore; he was a beautiful butterfly! But, in order for him to become a butterfly, he had to go through a special process called metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is a fancy way of saying that the caterpillar changed form. He looked different when he was a caterpillar than when he was a butterfly. Yesterday you learned about frogs, and frogs go through metamorphosis, too. A tadpole looks different than an adult frog. Animals that go through metamorphosis begin their lives looking one way, but end their lives looking very different.
(If you are having difficulty accessing this Scholastic video, make sure you use the password starkind3273)
Did you notice that all butterflies start out as eggs? That’s the first part of the life cycle. Then the egg hatches, and out comes a caterpillar. That’s the second stage. The caterpillar starts out really small, but it eats and eats, and then it gets bigger. Unlike the caterpillar in the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, real caterpillars only eat plants, mostly leaves. When the caterpillar gets big enough, it molts, which is a fancy way of saying that it sheds its skin, and then it turns into a chrysalis, or a pupa. That’s the part where it is in the cocoon and hanging upside down from a plant. Inside that chrysalis, the caterpillar’s body is changing, and it is becoming a butterfly!
So, the butterfly’s life cycle has four parts: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly. Let’s do that together, ready? Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. Check out this fun song to help you remember those stages! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvGUevGxDk
A cycle is something that happens over and over again. For a butterfly, it starts out as an egg, and out hatches a caterpillar. The caterpillar becomes a chrysalis, and out comes a butterfly. Then, that butterfly lays an egg, and everything happens all over again. Use this link to practice putting the stages of a butterfly’s life cycle in order: https://letsfindout.scholastic.com/issues/2019-20/040320.html
For today’s lesson, I want you to draw and label the life cycle of a butterfly. I know that the words for the different stages can be tricky, so I put them at the bottom of this post to help you. Don’t forget to send a picture of your work to your classroom teacher! I am also attaching the link to a website that shows you pictures of all different types of butterflies. Check it out, and I can’t wait to see everyone’s work! https://www.kidsbutterfly.org/photos
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