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If you are raising caterpillars in your classroom or studying insects in the spring, this Butterfly Life Cycle Unit is the perfect companion. Students will learn about metamorphosis as they observe an egg change into a caterpillar, form a chrysalis, and emerge as a butterfly. This resource pairs beautifully with a cup of caterpillars and supports hands on science, nonfiction reading, and writing instruction.
The unit includes a 20 page Butterfly Journal with informational text, recording pages, and observation activities to document each stage of the butterfly life cycle. Students can cut and paste the four stages of the life cycle, complete lifecycle writing activities, and use real photographs of eggs, j hook, chrysalis, caterpillar, and butterfly to deepen understanding.
You will also find colorful life cycle posters with arrows, schema, new learning, and misconceptions charts, and a Can Have Are anchor chart for butterflies. Literacy connections are included for Monarch Butterflies by Gail Gibbons and The Very Hungry Caterpillar with sequencing, beginning middle and end, text to self connections, and an anticipation guide.
Writing activities include informative writing about butterflies, fill in the blank writing, opinion writing, and prewriting templates for the butterfly life cycle. Word work activities such as alphabetizing vocabulary words, word search, syllables, making words, asking versus telling, and a metamorphosis vocabulary page help reinforce language skills.
A Venn diagram to compare and contrast a caterpillar and a butterfly, labeled butterfly diagrams with real photographs, and two engaging crafts including a caterpillar craft and a butterfly craft make this a complete cross curricular unit.
This Butterfly Life Cycle Unit is ideal for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade classrooms.
What's included:
- 20 page butterfly journal to use when your butterflies arrive or use the pages separately
- cut and paste 4 pictures to the lifecycle
- posters for schema, new learning, and misconceptions
- anticipation guide for the story Monarch Butterflies by Gibbons
- Web and informative writing paper for All about Butterflies
- Butterflies can, have, and are chart
- All about Butterflies fill in the blank writing
- Opinion prewriting and writing activitiy
- Butterfly lifecycle prewriting and writing
- alphabetizing vocabulary words
- word search
- syllables
- asking vs. telling
- making words
- metamorphosis vocabulary page
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar-sequencing, beginning, middle, and end, and text to self
- Venn diagram to compare and contrast a caterpillar to a butterfly
- real photographs of a labeled butterfly
- real photos of eggs, j hook, chrysalis, caterpillar, & butterfly
- Colorful posters with arrows to demonstrate the butterfly lifecycle
- caterpillar craft
- butterfly craft
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If you are raising caterpillars in your classroom or studying insects in the spring, this Butterfly Life Cycle Unit is the perfect companion. Students will learn about metamorphosis as they observe an egg change into a caterpillar, form a chrysalis, and emerge as a butterfly. This resource pairs beautifully with a cup of caterpillars and supports hands on science, nonfiction reading, and writing instruction.
The unit includes a 20 page Butterfly Journal with informational text, recording pages, and observation activities to document each stage of the butterfly life cycle. Students can cut and paste the four stages of the life cycle, complete lifecycle writing activities, and use real photographs of eggs, j hook, chrysalis, caterpillar, and butterfly to deepen understanding.
You will also find colorful life cycle posters with arrows, schema, new learning, and misconceptions charts, and a Can Have Are anchor chart for butterflies. Literacy connections are included for Monarch Butterflies by Gail Gibbons and The Very Hungry Caterpillar with sequencing, beginning middle and end, text to self connections, and an anticipation guide.
Writing activities include informative writing about butterflies, fill in the blank writing, opinion writing, and prewriting templates for the butterfly life cycle. Word work activities such as alphabetizing vocabulary words, word search, syllables, making words, asking versus telling, and a metamorphosis vocabulary page help reinforce language skills.
A Venn diagram to compare and contrast a caterpillar and a butterfly, labeled butterfly diagrams with real photographs, and two engaging crafts including a caterpillar craft and a butterfly craft make this a complete cross curricular unit.
This Butterfly Life Cycle Unit is ideal for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade classrooms.
What's included:
- 20 page butterfly journal to use when your butterflies arrive or use the pages separately
- cut and paste 4 pictures to the lifecycle
- posters for schema, new learning, and misconceptions
- anticipation guide for the story Monarch Butterflies by Gibbons
- Web and informative writing paper for All about Butterflies
- Butterflies can, have, and are chart
- All about Butterflies fill in the blank writing
- Opinion prewriting and writing activitiy
- Butterfly lifecycle prewriting and writing
- alphabetizing vocabulary words
- word search
- syllables
- asking vs. telling
- making words
- metamorphosis vocabulary page
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar-sequencing, beginning, middle, and end, and text to self
- Venn diagram to compare and contrast a caterpillar to a butterfly
- real photographs of a labeled butterfly
- real photos of eggs, j hook, chrysalis, caterpillar, & butterfly
- Colorful posters with arrows to demonstrate the butterfly lifecycle
- caterpillar craft
- butterfly craft
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If you would like to join me live to discuss these ideas and more in my classroom, please join my private group.
JOIN MY GROUP ~ FIRST GRADE ROARS ~ CONNECT & COLLABORATE ON FACEBOOK.
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