Bugs, bugs and bugs. I love bugs! Who else likes bugs? Let’s find them In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfEMvaAPNdM, Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5e6o8BYF-U, and I love Bugs! by Philemon Sturges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGxI6v-kIOY
Science
Bugs are also called insects (scientifically, not all insects are bugs). Below is a special song about insects’ body parts (Tune of “Head and Shoulders”):
Head, thorax, abdomen, and six legs.
Head, thorax, abdomen, and six legs.
Eyes, antennae, and some of them have a wing set.
Head, thorax, abdomen, and six legs!
As you sing, you realize that spiders are not insects!
We can also sort insects with this science booklet: https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/science-booklet-insects/grasshopper-looks-for-insects
If your child has a nature journal, help your child to complete the booklet and glue it in.
Language Art
First Reader Books are fun to read together with your child. This one is called I Like Bugs by Margaret Wise Brown. https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/insect-memory-game/insect-memory-game
After reading with your child, play a game with bug alphabet letters. For it, print the Bug Alphabet Cards and use them to spell bugs’ names and words in the book read. https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/bug-alphabet-cards/bug-alphabet-cards
Upper Case I Practice Sheet (Remember to start at the top) https://twistynoodle.com/uppercase-letter-i-6-coloring-page/
Creepy Crawly Fingerplay (Have your child do an action);
Creepy, crawly up my arm,
A spotty little bug!
When it crawls up to my neck,
I give a little shrug!
But…..he climbs a little more
And settles on my nose,
So I give a mighty snore!
And he scuttles to my toes.
Big Bugs, Small Bugs Song (Tune of “Frère Jacques”)
Big bugs, small bugs,
Big bugs, small bugs,
See them crawl, on the wall?
Creepy, creepy, crawling,
Never, never falling.
Bugs,bugs, bugs,
Bugs, bugs, bugs.
The Insect Song (Tune of “The Wheels on the Bus”)
The firefly at night goes blink, blink, blink,
Blink, blink, blink, blink, blink, blink,
The firefly at night goes blink, blink, blink,
All through the town.
The bees in the flower go buzz, buzz, buzz.
The ants in the grass go March, March, March.
The grasshoppers in the field go hop, hop, hop.
Math
Help your child to continue his/her pattern on the April calendar (Reptiles Week 3)
A Bright Bug Math Game: roll one or two dice and color the corresponding number on page. https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/math-center-addition/a-bright-bug
Insect Memory Game https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/insect-memory-game/insect-memory-game
Art
For this I for Insect Craft, you need: (1) brown, green and blue construction paper, (2) scissors, (3) black marker, (4) glue. Have your child cut a big green I and glue it to the blue construction paper. Cut 6 legs and 2 antennae out of brown construction paper and glue them on the I. Use black marker to draw eyes (or googley eyes) and face.
Thumb Bug in a Jar Craft https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/bug-craft/thumb-bugs-in-a-jar
Swarm of flies Bug Craft https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/bug-craft/swarm-of-flies
June Bug Craft https://www.themailbox.com/magazines/bug-craft/june-bug
Small Motor Skills
Match Insects Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/match-the-insects-coloring-page/
Tracing Insects Coloring Page https://twistynoodle.com/trace-the-insects-coloring-page/
Bug Cutting Practice Page https://twistynoodle.com/bug-cutting-practice-coloring-page/
Cut and Paste Letters of INSECT Page https://twistynoodle.com/cut-and-paste-the-letters-i-n-s-e-c-t-coloring-page/
Insects Dot Painting Page https://twistynoodle.com/insect-dot-painting-coloring-page/
Gross Motor Skills
Play a game with your child of hide and seek or “chirp” with sand paper. Give your child two pieces of sand paper and ask him/her to rub the two pieces in the place your child decides to hide. Take turn hiding and seeking.