Bees and Butterflies Theme What’s in the Box?

April is almost here and we’re getting ready for our Bees & Butterflies theme from Experience Early Learning! I love spring but not the mud and dreary raining weather we get in March and April. We’re getting closer to green grass, flowers, and bugs once again! Here’s an overview of what’s in the box for April 2019’s box. I’m especially looking forward to the Moth and Butterfly Collages!

Bees and Butterflies

Teacher materials: Theme web, gathering list, daily activity calendar, music CD, skills chart

Teacher Guides:

• Week One: Bee Basics
• Week Two: Bees & Wasps
• Week Three: Metamorphosis
• Week Four: Butterflies

April calendar grid and numbers

Letters of the month: K, M, X

Family Newsletter & My Creative Mind Daily Notes

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Week 1: Bee Basics

Lesson 1: Home – Beehive Rhyme, Beehive Stamping, Who Lives in the Bee Nest?, Hexagon Designs

Beehive rhyme poster

Lesson 2: Food – Helping with Hexagons, How Many Bees in the Hive? Fill the Honeycomb, Busy Bees

Lesson 3: Babies – Name Your Baby Bee, Queen Bee Headband, My Little Bee Jounral, Counting Bee Eggs

Lesson 4: Work -A Strong HIve, Drones in the Comb, Bee Hunt, Little Letter Book: Kk

Bees and Butterflies Theme poster

Lesson 5: Safety – Protecting the Hive, Bee Puppet, Safe Homes, Bee Careful!

My Creative Mind Daily Notes for Week 2

Week 2: Bees & Wasps

Lesson 7: Bumble Bee – Baby Bumble Bee, Little Leter Book: Mm, Bees I Can Read Books, Bee Matching Game

Lesson 8: Carpenter Bee – Building a Tunnel, Bee Puzzle, Egg in a Hole, Wooden Letters

Lesson 9: Yellow Jacket – Yellow Jackets Like to Sting, Yellow Jacket Noisemaker, Special Bees, Who STole the Honey?

Lesson 10: Hornet – Building a Nest, Listen & Draw, Counting Hornets, Stinging Words

Week 3: Metamorphosis

Lesson 11: Egg – Community of Eggs, Eggs on a Leaf, Open Your Egg, Hidden Eggs

Lesson 12: Caterpillar – Move Like a Caterpillar, Caterpillar Sculpture, Longest Caterpillar, Eating Through Letters

Lesson 13: Chrysalis – Wrapping Friends, Little Letter Book: Xx, Drawing the Life Cycle, LIfe Cycle Patterns

Lesson 14: Butterfly – Community Butterfly, Life Cycle Plate, Butterfly Symmetry, Fly to Letters

Lesson 15: Moth – Proboscis Challenge, Moth Hole Collage, Moth Landing, Puzzles in Nature

Week 4: Butterflies

Lesson 16: Monarch- Moving like Monarchs, Migrating Butterflies, Butterfly Math, Sunny Letters

Lesson 17: Swallowtail – Hiding Swallowtails, Butterfly Collage, Would You Rather? Scary Eyes

Lesson 18: Blue Morpho- A Blue Morpho, Butterfly Postcard, Pollinator Bingo, Letters in the Rainforest

Lesson 19: Peacock Butterfly – Be Brave, Butterfly, Butterfly Words, Butterfly Hunt

Lesson 20: Butterfly House – Butterfly House Tickets, My Portfolio, Be a Butterfly, Save the Butterflies

Coming up next month: Bubbles, Boats & Floats

Suggested Book List

Here is the Suggested Book List that coordinates with April’s theme.

Bees and Butterflies Theme Activities

• Coffee Filter Watercolor Butterflies
• In the Beehive
• Colors of a Monarch