Life Cycle of a Butterfly, Shamrocks, and some sunshine!

My Kinders are knee deep in the Life Cycle of a Butterfly unit.  They love this activity we did yesterday.  You can find the printable here at Making Learning Fun.  I used a bean for the egg, macaroni for the caterpillar, a shell for the chrysalis, and bowtie pasta for the butterfly. 

Here's some pictures:

To add some character, I had them use markers to color the pasta.

Super fun, super cute and a great way to visually see the life cycle! :)

I teach at a Catholic School, so St. Patrick's day is more than leprechauns and pots of gold in our school (although I LOVE that part of St. Patty's Day... click HERE for the fun activity we did last week with leprechauns).  St. Patrick used the Shamrock to teach about the Trinity.  Here's how my Kinders showed the Trinity:

And to end this post on a sunshiney spring note:
I came to school on Tuesday to these on my desk.  I love when kids send flowers in for the teacher :)

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It's beautiful here in Indiana today- I'm out to enjoy the weather with my boys!

Question for this time:  What is your favorite part about spring time??

The Creation Story

I work at a Catholic School- so we teach religion.  One of my favorite activities is this creation mural.  It's my favorite because they not only learn about the Creation story, but they learn LOTS of art techniques along the way!  

Here's what we use:

Glitter- stars

Oil Pastels - moon and sun

Paint (we discuss value- dark to light) - sky and grass

Texture wands- water

Computer - tree

crayons - animals