Life Cycles

I was having some trouble coming up with a science topic for the end of the year,

so I thought about things my kids enjoyed learning about and came up with one of my new favorite units: Life Cycles!

It teaches kids about mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds, and Insects. 

Then there is a life cycle to go along with each.

The kids really loved it, especially since we watched so many life cycles in our classroom this year!

(Butterflies and Frogs!)

You can check out this unit on Teachers Pay Teachers. 

Life Cycle Unit

We also did alligators, clown fish, chickens, and more!

This is another cool unit I came up with recently. I was inspired by my kids love of word searches and graphing.. so I combined the two and this is what I came up with!

Check out the sample I made: Freebie!

If your kiddos love it as much as mine, purchase the whole unit: Sight Word Find & Graph Unit

It makes a great literacy or math center!

Insects Unit

We have been having so much fun this week with our insect unit!

We started off by talking about what makes an insect an insect.

Here's a picture of the work we did:

We spent the rest of the week learning about the life cycle of a butterfly.

We did some really great projects.. this is one of my favorite units!

This is a life cycle project using pasta pieces to represent each stage.

I put this in the art center.

We made a book about the life cycle of a butterfly.

We wrote some facts about caterpillars and butterflies.

My favorite project.. the life cycle art project.

I put out various art materials and the kids had to display the four stages and label.

It was so interesting to see how different all of the projects came out. They really enjoyed it!

(The butterflies are attached to popsicle sticks and stuck in toilet paper tubes to emerge out of the cocoon!)

Check out my insect unit on Teachers Pay Teachers.