By Cheryl Ernst

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Butterflies

• By Cheryl Ernst
• Grade Level Pre-K

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Table of Contents

• Butterflies
• Table of Contents
• Georgia Performance Standards
• Words to Know
• Caterpillar or Butterfly?
• Favorite Butterfly Color
• Lifecycle of a Butterfly
• Lets Watch Butterflies
• The Butterfly Lifecycle The Monarch video
• The Lifecycle of a Monarch Butterfly video
• Lets Listen to a Story
• I Wish

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Table of Contents (cont)

• Caterpillar
• Food
• Crawling
• Butterfly
• Food
• Flying
• Measurement
• Leaf
• Flower
• Games and Puzzles
• Butterfly Tic Tac Toe
• Caterpillar Puzzle
• Butterfly Puzzle
• The End

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Georgia Pre-K Performance Standards

• Language Development-LD1- Children will develop
  skills in listening for a purpose.
• LD3- Children will develop an understanding for
  new vocabulary introduced inactivities
• Mathematical Development-MD3- Children will sort
  and classify objects.
• MD5- Children will learn how to use a variety of
  non-standard and standard units of measurement.
• Scientific Development- SD2- Children will
  acquire scientific knowledge related to life
  science.

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Words to Know
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Do you want to be a caterpillar or a butterfly?
In this math activity the students had to decide
if they wanted to be a caterpillar or a
butterfly. In class it was charted on a pictorial
pie graph using butterflies and caterpillars. The
results are shown below.
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Whats your favorite butterfly color?
In this math activity the students pretended they
were butterflies. They chose which butterfly
color they liked best. In class it was charted on
a pictorial bar graph using colored butterflies.
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Life cycle of a butterfly
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Lets watch butterflies !!
Click here to watch a video.
Click here to watch a video.
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Lets listen to a butterfly story!!
Click to hear the butterfly story I Wish...!
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Caterpillar Food
A caterpillar eats
leaves
seeds
flowers
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Caterpillars get to their food by crawling.
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Butterfly Food
A butterfly drinks
flower nectar
fruit nectar
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Butterflies must fly to their food.
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How long?
3 caterpillars long
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How long?
4 butterflies long
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Butterfly Tic Tac Toe
Click on this button to play!
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Fun Puzzles
Click on this button for a butterfly puzzle.
Click on this button for a caterpillar puzzle.
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The End !