Insect Tot School

Color: Black

Shape: Oval

Number: 6

Letter: I for Insect

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Day 1:  Insects                         

Read:  

• Language Development card 37
• Yoga But Simple Poses for Little Ones by Sarah Jane Hinder

Music: Bug Instruments

Experiment: Bug Hunt

Play:  Bug Sensory Tub

Day 2:  Ants                            

Read:  

• Language Development card 7
• Fun Songs #4
• Nursery Art pg. 115
• Summer Fun with Amber Lamb pg. 37

Music: sing the ants go marching

Experiment: Ant Farm

Play:  Counting Ants

Day 3:  Ladybugs                         

Read:  

• Language Development card 46
• Learning Numbers with Button Bear pg. 25
• Summer Fun with Amber Lamb pg. 31-33

Music: sing Ladybug Ladybug fly away home

Experiment: Ladybug Habitat

Day 4:  Bees                      

Read:  

• Alphabet Animal Card #2
• Nursery Art pg. 33
• Arts and Crafts with Button Bear pg. 11

Music:

• sing I’m bringing home a baby bumble bee
• Bumblebee Turn Around
• Betsey Bee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWK-RkrgHE&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=2

Day 5:  Inchworms                       

Read:  

• Alphabet Animal Card #9
• Learning Numbers with Button Bear pg. 35

Play:  Make Playdough Inchworms

Music: Itchy Inchworm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coW1OJnbut8&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=9

Day 6:  Butterflies                        

Read:  

• Language Development card 11
• Nursery Art pg. 145
• Summer Fun with Amber Lamb pg. 25-27
• Learning Numbers with Button Bear pg. 93

Music: sing bullfrogs and butterflies

Experiment: Raise Butterflies

Play: Butterfly Life Cycle Toys

Butterfly Sticker

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I ordered a couple toddler age books from Abeka.com. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Insect Tot School Unit:

• Language Development Cards 37, 7, 46, 11
• Animal Alphabet Friends Cards 2, 9
• Arts & Crafts with Button Bear pg. 11
• Summer Fun with Amber Lamb pg. 37, 31-33, 25-27
• Learning Numbers with Button Bear pg. 25, 35, 93
• Nursery Arts & Crafts pg. 115, 33, 145
• Abeka Fun Songs #4

Movie List:

• A Bugs Life
• Antz
• https://www.primarythemepark.com/2016/06/insect-videos-kids/?epik=dj0yJnU9OFZ0a1JTbU1XMWpKalpiR1dJRWhZeks0aWkxckVUMWQmcD0wJm49N0NaZzlCMVZVcnpEelN2eGU3UlNadyZ0PUFBQUFBR0xHUWRV

Book List:

• Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin Jr
• A Book of Colors Butterfly Butterfly by Petr Horacek
• A White Butterfly by Laurie Cohen
• I Like Bugs by Alice K Flanagan
• Caterpillar Colors Butterfly Dreams by Joanne Barkan
• Bug Hunt by Neecy Twinem
• I like bugs by Lorena Siminovich
• The Ants Go Marching by Jeffrey Scherer
• Peek-A-Boo Ladybug by The Clever Factory
• Picnic! A Day in the Park by Joan Holub
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Music/ Poems:

• Baby Signing Time
• Bug Instruments
• Bugs, Bugs, Bugs

Gross Motor: 

• Move like an insect cards

Fine Motor:

• Play Cooties

Trips:

• Butterfly House