Through the use of Technology, Literature-Based Mathematics and Science Instruction Caught the Eyes of our Kindergarten Caterpillars!

Mrs. Rhone’s and Mrs. Skal’s Kindergarten classes shared another FUN Friday filled with an assortment of educational activities. This week both Kindergarten classes listened to the big book entitled, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. This book introduces the lifecycle of the butterfly through the eyes of a caterpillar. Both Kindergarten classes have been observing real caterpillars in their science centers and were given the opportunity to share their findings with each other. After doing so, the students constructed a two-sided mobile. One side of the mobile presented the character from the story. The ability to identify the character in a story is one of this week’s target areas in our new literacy series, Reading Street. The other side of the mobile displayed the lifecycle of a butterfly with beans and colored macaroni. In addition, the student’s creation of an AB or ABC pattern from his/her observation of the caterpillar and butterfly was decorated on the outer edge of this side of the mobile. We also emphasized the Amazing Word, “cooperation” from our first unit in Reading Street. Please view the picture above of “cooperation” in action! Both Mrs. Rhone and Mrs. Skal would like to extend a big THANK YOU to our elementary librarian, Mrs. Janelle Tench, for her assistance with the document camera. We were able to utilize a document camera to not only provide step by step visual instructions of the project but magnify our real caterpillars to make observations like actual scientists do!