I am a mom who after seeking out Pre-K teaching resources, decided to instead make up my own stuff. Why? Because my 3 year old does not fit into a mold and I have come to see that only I know what will really keep her attention. So I have made this blog to keep a Journal of all the lessons, art pojects and resources I have created and used. And because writing them on scrap papers and kept loosely in a binder just did not work out so well....

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Butterflies Part I

 We started studying butterflies and caterpillars.
But before we got our live caterpillars, we looked at some books from the Library and borrowed.
We read about them.  I showed her pictures on line.
We even found some outside one day and held them.
One afternoon we drew and painted some butterflies.  It was also a great chance to talk about God being the Creator.
Here are our paintings....
I drew the butterfly and told her that we were doing to create our own butterflies like God does!
So I showed her how I could make any shape I wanted inside the wings.  Then she did the next one.  
I love that she put ears on her butterfly....

 We used cheap-o watercolor sets.  I love these.  They work great and I don't wince if the paint gets wasted. 
 Here is the final product beautifully displayed on the fridge.  It was during this painting project that Ella Reese discovered that she could "make" new colors by mixing colors.  But the only color she was excited about mixing was all of them.  Which makes a black muddy color.  But she was still excited to make it.  So she started to paint the remainder of the paper with this new color.
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  1. AllysonJuly 5, 2010 at 5:54 AM

    So did they get messed up in the mail AGAIN!? What in the world? In all 5 years I've used insectlore that has never ever happened. I hate that for you, Lil.

    You can teach Ella Reese symmetry with butterflies, too. I used to have a cutout of a butterfly with my kids and have them paint (real paint b/c watercolors wouldn't show up) only one side then fold it in half to make it symmetrical. Then show her real butterfly wings are symmetrical, too. If there's a red dot on the top left, there's a red dot on the top right wing, too.

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