July 2023
Snappy the Caterpillar...
We have a new friend in the preschool room and it caused a flutter of conversation! The preschool room would like to introduce: SNAPPY THE CATERPILLAR! S’ family brought in a monarch caterpillar for the children to observe and have in the environment. Lots of the children talked about what the caterpillar was doing and what was going to happen to the caterpillar.
“He looks like a snake and he has stripes,” said A
“Don’t wake him up!” said J
The children looked at the caterpillar and thought it was sleeping but since the children were talking near it, they had an idea to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to it to help it fall back asleep. Awoken from his nap, Snappy began to eat some of the milkweed leaves that were brought in which prompted the question: Why does he eat leaves?
“To grow!” said R
The preschool children wondered what was going to happen after he ate food to grow a little bit so the educators asked what the children thought would happen.
“Turn into a butterfly!” said S.
“Transform into a butterfly!” said G
“Do caterpillars sleep?” asked J
“They sleep for a long time,” said A
Now understanding that the caterpillar would turn into a butterfly, the children wondered what the butterfly would look like so we asked: what colour do you think it will be?
“Maybe orange,” said G
“Blue!” said A, E, and L
“Green!” said W
“Black!” said S.
After discussing the colours, we referred to the bug book that was out in the room and looked at some butterflies and then all the children drew what they thought the butterflies would look like.
Rachelle Minthorn RECE, Jen Kesner RECE
