Insects

Our insect unit has been a very interesting one for the Kindergarteners! We’ve learned what makes an insect an insect. They have three body parts, six legs, and two antennas. Ask your child to sing you our song to remember all of their parts!

We read informational books about insects, specifically ants and ladybugs. They learned many facts about them and asked some excellent questions too! Some of our new favorite books were narrative stories, Hey Little Ant and The Grouchy Ladybug. Here are some of the insect themed projects we worked on!

Rockin’ around the clock! Reading clocks to the hour!
In the Grouchy Ladybug story, the grouchy ladybug meets a new character every hour.
We had a blast learning how to tell time!

Does it have capital letters, punctuation and spaces??
They had so much fun being “editors” correcting these sentences from The Grouchy Ladybug story!

Should the boy squish the ant?
The kinders wrote their opinions whether the character in the story should squish the ant!
They gave great reasons for their argument-they were quite convincing!

We used our sight words and insects we “caught” to build sentences. 

We also practiced adding using number lines!
These number line ziplock bags were perfect!

In reading groups, we practice building and reading words and sentences, reading strategies, and fluency and comprehension. After reading our books a few times, we echo read to practice reading more fluently.

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Using our new sight word “said” we made a few comic strip pictures in our journals!