Description
From a tiny egg on milkweed to a caterpillar, a chrysalis and a monarch butterfly, Milo the Monarch makes metamorphosis easy to follow for preschool, pre-K and kindergarten, ages 3 to 6. Butterfly worksheets include cut and paste sequencing, parts of a butterfly, counting and butterfly symmetry.
Plan a full caterpillar and butterfly week for the classroom, homeschool or daycare with a 5 day lesson plan, a wall poster that grows one stage a day and a Life Cycle Wheel craft. No prep spring activities save you prep time.
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This unit is part of the Life Cycles Mega Bundle, 12 science units for the whole year. Get the bundle and save big: CLICK HERE
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
► You will get 60+ pages, including: ⤵
▴ Preschool & Pre-K and kindergarten black and white worksheets: ⤵
→ Butterfly Life Cycle, cut and paste (4 stages)
→ Butterfly Life Cycle, cut and paste (3 stages)
→ Trace the Word
→ Trace the Words
→ Color and Label
→ What Comes Next?
→ Parts of a Butterfly
→ Count the Butterflies
→ Help the Butterfly
→ Small to Big
→ Draw the Life Cycle
→ Butterfly Symmetry
→ My Butterfly, draw and write
▴ Teacher Guide with a 5 day lesson plan and assessment pages
▴ Milo the Monarch, a read-aloud story in color
▴ Wall life cycle poster to build with the class
▴ Mini poster, flash cards and a chant with motions
▴ My Butterfly Life Cycle Book (emergent reader)
▴ Pattern coloring pages
▴ Life Cycle Wheel craft with a finished example and templates, plus a color teacher wheel to laminate
▴ Headband and certificate
► Pages in US Letter size (8.5 x 11 inches). For A4 paper, choose Fit to Page when printing.
WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT
The story follows the real monarch: the mother lays her eggs on milkweed, the caterpillar hatches after about four days, eats milkweed and sheds its skin as it grows, forms a chrysalis and comes out as a butterfly. The flash cards also introduce the words larva and pupa.
A 3 stage cut and paste lets younger children join the same lesson with a smaller step.
Bold lines, large pictures and short directions make every page easy to read, including for children who use visual supports.
✥ PERFECT FOR
◆ Homeschool spring science
◆ Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms
◆ Daycare and childcare programs
◆ Science and learning centers
◆ Spring, insects and garden theme weeks
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Sequencing the 4 stages of the butterfly life cycle
◆ Science vocabulary: larva, pupa, chrysalis, milkweed
◆ Exploring symmetry with butterfly wings
◆ Counting butterflies to 7 and matching numerals
◆ Predicting what comes next and ordering by size
◆ Cutting, gluing, tracing and coloring for fine motor strength
◆ Oral language through the chant and the Life Cycle Wheel
✥ SAVE BIG WITH THE MEGA BUNDLE
Teach a new life cycle every season with all 12 units in one download: pumpkin, apple, turkey, penguin, robin, plant, butterfly, frog, chicken, ladybug, bee and sea turtle. CLICK HERE to see everything inside the Life Cycles Mega Bundle and save big.
TERMS
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