All About Bees

When our Experience Early Learning theme box coincides with our Exploring Nature with Children curriculum, magic happens. This week we have been studying Garden Visitors including moles, rabbits, and of course BEES! In fact this week, our co-op had a beekeeper come and speak to us and we took a field trip to see her hives! As an Experience Early Learning (EEL) Blogger, I receive the EEL...

Butterfly Metamorphosis Activities for Preschoolers

Our butterfly adventures ended this week.  We released our butterflies at the end of our last day.  It was the perfect way to end our week on Metamorphosis and our unit on Bees and Butterflies.I shared the other week some egg-celent ideas (pun intended cuz I'm cheesy like that) fromMother Goose Time as we studied the Egg in our Metamorphosis week. But here are our faves from the...

Metamorphosis for Preschoolers: Egg

A butterfly emerged overnight!All day long, my girl has stared into the butterfly habitat whispering encouragements as the butterflies slowly move their wings.  It's adorable.I would have never thought to buy a butterfly habitat and all that goes into it if we were not having an amazing unit from our Mother Goose Time preschool curriculum.It was the perfect day to start our Metamorphosis...

Carpenter Bee Math

We are having a blast with our bee week with our Bees and Butterflies unit from Mother Goose Time.  Down here in the south, the bees returned about a month and a half ago.  Because our yard is filled with azaleas in the spring, we have no shortage of bees in our yard.  In fact, the carpenter bees love our back porch, and every spring I can find some new holes drilled by them....

Honey Bee Activities

We are into Bees and Butterflies around here thanks to our preschool curriculum from Mother Goose Time!If you missed my last post on Beehive Stamping, be sure to check that out.If you are looking for more bee fun, let me share what we did today!First things first... grab some bee wings you bought at Dollar Tree last Halloween and put them on.MathNumber RecognitionUsing the cards MGT sent and...

Beehive Stamping

Spring has sprung down here in Texas!The azaleas are putting out their yearly show and our yard is exploding with white and pink azaleas.With the blooming of all the flowers, comes the pollen and the bees (and allergies)!It's absolutely perfect timing to start our Bees and Butterflies Unit from Mother Goose Time, our preschool homeschool curriculum.I have to admit... I despise insects-...