Fizz Boom Read: Butterflies and Insects!
A storytime devoted to the little critters that ruins picnics and whatnot!
Books:
Buzzzzz Said the Bee by Wendy Lewison
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
I Love Bugs! by Emma Dodd
Songs:
Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo
Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids
Song 3: I'm Bringing Home A Baby Bumblebee - Wee Sing Animals
Song 4: This is the Beehive - Wee Sing Animals
Song 5: Eensy Weensy Spider - Wee Sing Animals
Song 6: Dance Your Fingers / Clap Along With Me - Wee Sing for Baby
Song 7: Let Everyone Clap Like Me - Wee Sing in the Car
Song 8: The Caterpillar - Wee Sing Animals
Felt/Magnet Board:
I got the idea for this week's board from Storytime Katie! I simply printed out six basic butterflies and colored them in different colors - much easier than trying to find six butterflies in six different colors! It's a rhyme that goes like this:
The first to come to the garden bed
Is a lovely butterfly of brilliant RED.
Then in comes another and that makes two.
Fly right in, my friend of BLUE.
“The garden is fine, the best I’ve seen,”
says the butterfly of softest GREEN.
Our garden needs a sunny fellow,
Fly on in, butterfly with wings of YELLOW.
Little friend of PURPLE, fly in too.
The garden is waiting for a color like you.
ORANGE, orange, you’re waited so long.
Fly right in, where you belong.
Butterflies, butterflies, you’re such a sight!
Flying together – what a delight!
Is a lovely butterfly of brilliant RED.
Then in comes another and that makes two.
Fly right in, my friend of BLUE.
“The garden is fine, the best I’ve seen,”
says the butterfly of softest GREEN.
Our garden needs a sunny fellow,
Fly on in, butterfly with wings of YELLOW.
Little friend of PURPLE, fly in too.
The garden is waiting for a color like you.
ORANGE, orange, you’re waited so long.
Fly right in, where you belong.
Butterflies, butterflies, you’re such a sight!
Flying together – what a delight!
I paused before each color and showed the butterflies to the kids to try and get them to say the color and complete the rhymes; it mostly worked :-)
This week we didn't do so much of an "experiment" as a presentation. Knowing we were going to explore butterflies and insects and all their sciency wonder, our library was able to get us an Insect Lore Butterfly Garden kit. You send off a little certificate and you receive little caterpillars in a cup in return! See:
They munch on the brown stuff for a while and eventually spin their cocoons:
About a week and a half later we had butterflies!! We set them in their net (or Butterfly Garden) and let the kids take a look. Let's just say - they were very enthusiastic! We had a small release ceremony (one little girl showed up) and had to manually help the butterflies out of the netting. Once they took off, they were long gone!
Craft:
This week our craft was a caterpillar!!
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