We have been studying insects the past few weeks in class! In my previous years, I had only taught about caterpillars and butterflies. This year I found out our science program will let us study a few different insects.
First up, are meal worms!
I have plenty of butterfly activities from [this pack] I had made this year, but I needed a few different things for this unit, so I made a little mini-unit that I thought I would offer up as a freebie.
We held these crawling little buggers in our hands today and the kids were squirming and giggling all over the place! Then, we recorded our observations in our journal:
We unscrambled some insect sentences during handwriting:
and practiced mentally adding and subtracting 10 with this little math game:
Last, we did a little close reading all about the Venus Flytrap and my kids thought is was THE COOLEST PLANT EVER!
*This passage is actually in my Plants unit, but since we won’t be studying those for a couple more weeks, I thought this would be a nice addition to our insect study*
All of the activities above (except the close read) are for FREE in this little unit I uploaded to TPT last night! I hope others can use them!
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Thanks for the freebie! I can't do mealworms…I don't know why:) But our class is "growing" ladybugs (that's what they all say) and caterpillars. This will be perfect!
SweetSchoolMoments
Oh, my goodness! Thanks for the great freebies! I didn't think I could mealworms until this year! And it was fun because the kids loved it.
Mealworms! What a great idea! Thanks for sharing.
KaSandra
MemoriesMadeinFirst
Thanks for these activities. I did caterpillars and butterflies this year. Can’t wait to add your meal worm activities too.
Thanks. kids will love this.