Description
Bug science your little learners will love: Lulu the Ladybug hatches from a tiny yellow egg, eats aphids as a larva, rests as a pupa and comes out with red wings and black spots. This ladybug life cycle unit for preschool, pre-K and kindergarten, ages 3 to 6, includes insect worksheets for sequencing, counting and ladybug spots.
A 5 day lesson plan, a wall poster that grows one stage a day and a Life Cycle Wheel craft make a complete garden insects week for the classroom, homeschool or daycare, with no prep worksheets that 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: ⤵
→ Ladybug Life Cycle, cut and paste (4 stages)
→ Ladybug Life Cycle, cut and paste (3 stages)
→ Trace the Word
→ Trace the Words
→ Color and Label
→ What Comes Next?
→ Parts of a Ladybug
→ Count the Ladybugs
→ Help the Ladybug
→ Small to Big
→ Draw the Life Cycle
→ Ladybug Spots (draw to match)
→ My Ladybug, draw and write
▴ Teacher Guide with a 5 day lesson plan and assessment pages
▴ Lulu the Ladybug, 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 Ladybug 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 with a handprint ladybug
► 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 keeps insect science real: the mother ladybug lays tiny yellow eggs on a plant with aphids, the larva looks nothing like a ladybug and eats aphids for two or three weeks, the pupa changes for one or two weeks, and the adult gets its red wing covers and black spots.
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 garden science
◆ Preschool, Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms
◆ Daycare and childcare programs
◆ Science and learning centers
◆ Summer, garden and insect theme weeks
◆ Small groups
◆ Independent practice
◆ Early finishers
★ SKILLS PRACTICED
◆ Sequencing the 4 stages of the ladybug life cycle
◆ Science vocabulary: larva, pupa, aphid, wing covers
◆ Matching spots with Ladybug Spots
◆ Counting ladybugs 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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