Butterflies

The tail end of this week has been tying up the Hungry Caterpillar topic.

The lovely butterflies you can see above were make from thick card and lolly-pop sticks.

The intention of this craft was focusing on symmetry. I wasn't sure how well this would go, and while I doubt either of the boys would remember talking about symmetry now they did both understand the concept at the time.

Lots of pretty butterflies all up on the wall. Nice and cheery for spring!

You could say that we got a bit carried away with doing butterfly prints. Honestly butterflies are such a great way to introduce symmetry ;-)

We had so many butterflies in the end that I had to call time on the printing before we completely ran out of drying space.

To round off each boy made a nice little book about the life cycle of a butterfly (though in Moo's book  he opted for a funky blue leaved plant). Moo doesn't actually want to stop doing the Hungry Caterpillar topic but I'm all out of ideas to go any further!

Little Caterpillars

Continuing in the Hungry Caterpillar theme the boys practised with the scissors, cutting out the days of the week, with Lamb ordering them. He can do this easily now so I won't labour the point too much more in future.

Banana and sweet potato muffins this week... not as yummy as they sounded. Moo was left to spoon the mixture into the muffin cases this time, a responsibility he took very seriously!

No, he's not in bed! This is Lamb pretending to be a caterpillar in a cocoon! This was THE favourite game yesterday - the boys wrapped themselves up in quilts then emerged as beautiful butterflies.

Another picture of Moo hard at work. He's really, really enjoying learning his sounds.

He's just moved on to sound blends and is doing really well.

His pencil control is coming on a treat as well. Yesterday I found him trying to write his name free hand all by himself, and he'd managed the first 3 letters. Clever boy!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We just started a literacy unit on the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Moo is loving this story, and it is simple enough that he sits down with the book and reads it to himself. It's very cute to listen to! He got to this page and exclaimed: "OH mummy! I don't know what his house is called!"

We've been working on this great little maths booklet available from http://www.comunication4all.co.uk/ that uses the Hungry Caterpillar as its inspiration. The level was a little too hard for Moo because he can count fairly confidently to 10 but hasn't started linking that to written numbers yet, but he didn't want to be left out. It's perfect for kids that are working on 1 -10.

Interestingly Lamb confidently managed visual patterns where he has difficulties with the oral patterns that Moo excels at.

We'll be doing more Hungry Caterpillar stuff soon, so I'll add links as and when :)