How to have a bug week

My boys love bugs and being outside so this week we have concentrated on having a bug week. This has involved collecting different insects to observe and draw, reading books about insects and doing worksheets centered around bugs. Their movie night film was bee movie to round it all off!

We spent lots of time looking at different bugs and drawing them. They both enjoyed trying to carefully catch ants and centipedes from the garden to look at through the magnifying box. We counted the legs and looked at antenna and wings. They drew simple pencil drawings of what they saw and the eldest wrote the names of the bugs while we practiced phonics.

They enjoyed reading 'The Hungry Caterpillar' and using the storyboard I made for them. This brought up questions about which bugs eat what and we discussed our favorite fruits and foods and the colours of these foods.

I compiled several worksheets I found online to make a small activity book for each of them. There were mazes, colour by number, word searches and  dot to dot and they really liked that it was a little book for them. All the activities were related to insects and they were keen to work hard in them.

Each week they have movie night as a reward for working hard all week and for us to enjoy snuggly time on the sofa watching something fun. This week I decided on 'Bee Movie'. I was going to go for 'Bugs Life' but the language and scenes are not so great for small children :(

They have had lots of fun with this project and have been interested in the life cycle of butterflies so I am sure it will lead to another collection of activities next week :)