First Grade Garden Lesson 5 - Concrete Poetry and Butterflies!

This week the topic was concrete poetry in the garden.  Since we were also watching our cabbage white caterpillars turn into butterflies - we talked more about that too.

Group Activity

• Showed the kids (on the ipad) pictures of an egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly for the cabbage white and for the monarch butterfly.
• After they had mastered the life cycle of the butterfly - I showed them what they would be doing at their table activity for the life cycle.
• Next, we talked about butterflies.  We talked about how they are symmetrical.  After that I described the activity for making symmetrical butterflies.
• Then we talked about a concrete poem.  A concrete poem uses words to form a shape. 

Table 1:

This table used the worksheet here to describe the life cycle of a butterfly.  They glued on pictures of an egg, a caterpillar, a butterfly, and a chrysalis.  Then they used the words from the word bank to label each picture. 

 

Table 2:

This table made butterflies.  They colored half of a butterfly cut-out using pastels.  Then they folded it in half and rubbed it with a quarter.  This made the butterfly symmetrical!

Table 3:

This table wrote concrete poetry.  They used the worksheet here and wrote words around the outside like in the example.

Garden:

In the garden we measured our plants to plot on a graph.  For the radishes and carrots, we thinned out just half.  With any extra time, we walked to the herb garden and explored it by smelling the plants!

 Enjoy!