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Kindergarten, 4th 9-weeks

K.7 Students know that many types of change occur

K.7A Students observe, describe, record changes in size, mass, color, position, time, temperature, sound, and movement.

K.7D Students observe and record the changes in the life cycle of organisms in their natural environment.

Ladybugs

• Use some of the Ladybug Vista - Lucy the Changing Ladybug
• Ladybug Lodge – can be purchased for this project

Extension – Honeybees 

• Literature Connections to Ladybugs:

• The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle  

  • The grouchy ladybug and the friendly ladybug want to eat all the aphids on a leaf. The grouchy ladybug challenges the friendly ladybug to a fight, and then challenges every other animal it meets regardless of the animal’s size or strength. For young children, this book is a wonderful springboard to measurement activities involving size. There is a clock on each page to chronicle the day in hours for older children. This book works especially well with Activity 2.

• Ladybug, Ladybug by Ruth Brown

  • Based on the nursery rhyme “Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home,”

AIMS:

• Lenses and Ladybugs
  or http://www.aimsedu.org/Activities/oldSamples/Lenses/lenses1.html

Websites

• Ladybug on-line activity from GEMS - Play the a " Eat the Aphids" game

• Background info and activities about the ladybug

• Label the Ladybug Life Cycle Diagram

• Parts of a Ladybug

• Ladybug activities printouts, crosswords and more

• More poems and activities

• Insect Fact Card

• Insect KWL Chart

• All About Ladybugs

• Fun Facts about Ladybugs
   

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 on Friday, November 30, 2007