Butterfly Pretzels

As a Thursday station, we created some beautiful pretzel butterflies. The children had a messy, but fun time making their butterflies. We had a few tears when the butterflies wouldn't do exactly what they wanted to do. This just gave us the opportunity to talk about patience and persistence. At the end, everyone had the perfect butterfly!

We will be getting some caterpillars in the next week or so. We will watch as our caterpillars start to crawl to the top of our observation container and spin their chrysalis. They will eventually turn into beautiful butterflies! This is a really neat process for the students to observe.

The kindergarten class also has their own plot in the St. Joan of Arc Community Garden. We will be planting some carrot and snow pea seeds next week during Thursday stations. We will be watching these grow as we anticipate our visit from the Purdue nutritionist. She will go with us when we pick our vegetables from our garden. She will talk with the students about the importance to eat healthy.