Miss Cheyenne’s Little Butterflies

August 29, 2022Miss Carrie's Corner Bugs, Spring Theme Leave a comment

For pre-literate children, the visual arts are a primary means through which they can explore and share their perceptions of their world. The visual arts can help children to communicate ideas that cannot be expressed verbally, which is particularly important for children with English as a second language.

This week’s theme entails all things related to hiking. In order to bring the visual arts to our young ones, Miss Cheyenne came up with this colorful art project! Students used their fingers to add glue and pipe cleaners to paper shapes in order to create a beautiful butterfly!

Our students enjoyed sharing their creations with their friends. Many of them even engaged in some dramatic play!

Ant Hills

May 26, 2015Miss Carrie's Corner Bugs 1 Comment

Ant hills are an impressive feature of the grasslands throughout the United States.

In some areas, many hundreds of these mounds form wonderful ant-created landscapes, many decades or even centuries old.

Each ant hill is the result of many lifetimes of labor by thousands of tiny ants.

Ant hills are of great ecological importance, and so we created our very own!

Using popsicle stick ants, rocks, sticks, and sand, we created our very own ant hills!

Insects and other small animals are a key part in any food chain, a subject your students will study in elementary science.

Knowing about them and having respect for insects now will help them better appreciate insects’ importance later.

B is for Bugs

March 25, 2013Miss Carrie's Corner Seasons Leave a comment

Every spring, migrating birds return to areas affected by snow and cold weather. These birds feast on the great flood of insects that return at the same time. Using tweezers, plastic bugs, and plastic grass, we pretended to be birds looking for these scrumptious treats. Before we began this activity, we talked about why bugs are important during this time of year. Your little one learned that a wide variety of flowering plants and songbirds owe their existence to these tiny creatures. They not only pollinate plants, but transport organic compounds throughout the soil. This activity encouraged fine motor development, the application of new subject matter, and hand-eye coordination.