Living Things

For the last few weeks we have been learning about different types of living things.  We started with humans and animals then moved to plants and insects.

Check out all of the discovery that has been going on in PreK!

In learning about plants we "hand" made a beautiful flower and labeled all of its' important parts.

First came the seed, then roots, and from the roots grew a stem.

 Off of the stem came some leaves, and...

 a beautiful flower!

In order to grow, the flower must have sunshine.

 Then we placed the part labels in the proper spots.

Then we planted some seeds of our own.

Here we're growing carrots and peas...fingers crossed!

 These are our sprout houses where were hoping to start some lima bean sprouts.

Then we moved on to insects.

We learned what a bug has to have to be an insect: 3 body parts, 6 legs, antenna, and sometimes wings.

We sorted bugs by whether they are in insect or not.

We also got to learn about the neat life cycle of a butterfly!

Everyone came home with a neat bracelet to help as a reminder of the stages of the life cycle.

To round out our insect week we got some new friends.

We are excited to watch these caterpillars grow and change!

Here's how much they grew in 5 days!

It looks like at least one may be in his chrysalis by tomorrow.