♪ Good morning to ♪ ♪ A brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (playful music) - Hello little learners, welcome back to our learning space.

My name is Miss Laura, can you tell me your name?

I'm so excited that you made it back this morning.

Let's start our day off with a song like we always do.

Today, I have my insect friend with me, let's sing together.

♪ Goof morning ♪ ♪ Good morning ♪ ♪ It's a sunshine kind of day ♪ ♪ Come join Miss Laura ♪ ♪ For some learning and some play ♪ ♪ Will we sing a song ♪ ♪ Of course we will ♪ ♪ Make our brains strong ♪ ♪ Like super strong ♪ ♪ So come along ♪ ♪ Yes come on friends ♪ ♪ For some learning and some play ♪ Well, let me put my insect away, and I'll show you the schedule for the day.

Okay, we're gonna start off with our emotional check-in.

Now this week, we're doing a song and playing a guessing game where you're gonna try to guess how I'm feeling.

Now remember, it's important for you to check-in on how you're feeling, not just once when we play this game, but throughout the day, and don't forget to check-in on those around you too.

And then, we're gonna move to our weekly investigation.

Our focus text has been The Hungry Caterpillar by the author and illustrator, Eric Carl.

So we're gonna continue our work around that book, we're gonna learn about the butterfly life cycle, which of course as grown-ups, gave it a fancy name, metamorphosis.

And then, we'll do our activity and sing our goodbye song if there's time, if not, give you a wave and a smooch.

Does that sound like a good plan?

Okay, let's start off with our feelings song.

More songs, I know, I love it.

Do you remember the tune of this one?

I caught a little baby bumble bee, except we're gonna change it to feelings, and when I make a face, you're gonna guess how I'm feeling.

Are you ready?

Goes like this.

♪ I have a little feeling inside of me ♪ ♪ Once I name it you will see ♪ ♪ I have a little feeling inside of me ♪ ♪ Oh it's ♪ Yeah, silly.

I was trying to make a silly face like that.

I don't know if it translated well.

Let's do one more.

♪ I have a little feeling inside of me ♪ ♪ Once I name it you will see ♪ ♪ I have a little feeling inside of me ♪ ♪ Oh it's ♪ Yes, grumpy.

Do you ever feel grumpy, especially having to wake up so early sometimes, huh?

Okay, one more.

♪ I have a little feeling inside of me ♪ ♪ Once I name it you will see ♪ ♪ I have a little feeling inside of me ♪ ♪ Oh it's ♪ (gasps) Yes, happy.

Happy is a feeling you get when you smile and your whole body feels like dancing.

I hope you're happy this morning.

All right, now you already know I have something to share behind my board.

Let me give you a letter clue that's gonna tell you what it is.

All right, let me stand up.

Now, to make this letter, you guys are getting so good at this, you're gonna need four big lines.

I'm gonna start my letter at the top, I tickle my happy face, that's why it's always happy, and then I'm gonna bring another big line down so it kind of slides like that.

Have I made a letter yet?

No, not yet huh.

How about here?

(gasps) That could be a letter, but it's not the letter I'm looking for.

Remember, I said we would use four big lines, I've only used three.

Here's my last big line.

Do you recognize this letter?

Yes, it's the letter M. M for metamorphosis.

Ooh, that's a mouthful, isn't it?

Metamorphosis.

Metamorphosis is the fancy name that we adults gave to the process of a caterpillar egg turning into a butterfly, the change that happens.

So this is the life cycle of a butterfly.

Now, do you remember in our book, our tiny caterpillar ate and ate until it was a big fat caterpillar and then it turned into a butterfly, that's right.

So it followed a cycle.

First, it starts off as an egg, just like that on a little leaf.

Then, it becomes a caterpillar.

Have you ever seen a caterpillar before?

They're kind of fuzzy, have little fuzzies at the end.

Then, it becomes a chrysalis or a pupa, and that hangs on a little stick like that and the caterpillar stays in there for about two weeks, and when it comes out, it's a butterfly.

And what makes this is a cycle is it happens over and over again in the same way.

So the butterfly lays some eggs, has eggs that turn into a caterpillar that go into chrysalis for two weeks and have butterflies, it goes around and around again.

So, to help you remember this life cycle I have an activity for you.

So here are the materials that you'll need.

Now, you'll need a, some stick, any kind of stick, so you can go outside to your backyard, nothing fancy unless you have it.

You'll need some yarn, paper, a toilet paper roll, and some paint if you have it, if not, markers, crayons or nothing at all.

So here is the finished product.

Look at that.

It has all the stages of the butterfly life cycle.

It has the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysiasis, and the butterfly.

And you can hang this up.

Now, parents, what makes this a learning tool and not a craft, is all the questioning you'll do when you see this.

So as you hang it up, ask your son or daughter, what comes first in the cycle, I wonder if we can go looking for eggs.

What happens inside a chrysalis?

That's what's going to make it a learning tool.

So let's start making our activity.

So as you can see, I got a stick from my backyard, nothing fancy here, and I got a white yarn like this.

So the first thing that you're gonna do is you're going to cut some yarn about as long as you want, but I would say about this long here.

Nothing official.

This is the part that you're going to use to hang your mobile, it's called.

Sometimes they have them over babies cribs, keeps them busy.

I'm gonna tie a knot.

Now this could be good practice boys and girls because when you go to school, teachers really love it if you know how to tie your own shoes and you don't have to ask a grown-up for help.

So learning to coordinate your fingers to tie a knot really helps you out at school.

Okay, so here's what my mobile is starting to look like, it goes like this.

And of course I'll trim this off.

Next, you're going to want to get another piece of yarn as long as you'd like, about this long, and you're gonna tie it on one end of the stick.

This is where you're gonna put your eggs.

So, since I showed you how to tie a knot, now I'll show you how to make the leaf and put some eggs on it.

So, I like to use recycled materials, so we turned this trash into toys that we can play with.

So I want you to think about a leaf shape.

Leaf shapes are kind of like, they go up, they come at a point, then they go down like this, notice I'm using my helper hand.

Now, your leaf does not have to look like my leaf, but this is what my leaf looks like, see?

And then, I have a little bit of green paint here, but you can use crayons or just leave it brown, and I'm gonna paint it up just like that.

Now, Eric Carl liked to leave a little bit of the paper underneath showing, it added a good texture.

Now, if you want to learn more about texture, make sure to check our Mrs. Readwright's art lesson, she teaches all about texture, doesn't she?

So here's my leaf, and what I've used to make my eggs is a paper towel like this.

So I took a little chunk like this about this big and then I crumbled it up and glued it down to make my eggs.

So you can see in the finished product here, little eggs like that.

Now I'm gonna show you how to make the caterpillar.

This is another recycled material.

You're actually gonna take a toilet paper roll and this is fun, you're gonna scrunch it like this, until it forms kind of like a little caterpillar shape, like this, see, and then you can paint it green.

And you'll want to hang that up right next to your egg because that's the next thing in the sequence, isn't it?

The last thing that we're gonna do today is the chrysalis, I'm gonna show you how to make the butterfly tomorrow.

So for the chrysalis, I used another little stick, you can see right here, you don't have to be this fancy, and then I put another piece of paper towel inside, so I took another chunk.

Now, you can use whatever you have on hand, you don't need to use paper towel.

You can use paper, you can use anything you have.

And I crumbled it into a little ball like this.

And then I took a piece of green tissue, I'm going to cut this into a square, just like that.

Looks a little rectangly, 'cause the sides are not even, but then we're gonna put the paper towel inside and wrap it up like a little present.

Now what's interesting is a butterfly will stay inside of its chrysalis for up to two weeks.

That's its home.

And then when it comes out, it doesn't look like a caterpillar at all, does it?

It has wings, looks completely different.

It's transformed.

So then you're gonna want to hang that just like I did here.

Now, I told you, I would teach you how to make the butterfly tomorrow.

We're gonna use a very special technique, we're gonna study symmetry where things are the same on both sides.

Now to get started with that, you can use the same paper bag or some paper, whatever you have, and cut out a butterfly shape.

So to do that, the first thing you'll do is cut out a square.

Now, a square is a shape that has four equal sides.

And then you'll fold it in half like this and then make two almost circles, and then don't touch and go back another way.

And then you have a butterfly just like that and I'll show you how to paint it tomorrow.

But boys and girls, if you make this or any of the other projects that you see here, make sure that you send me a picture, I'd love to show it on air.

And if you send your address, you get one of these fun activity books.

So look, it has lots of word games that you can play, coloring that you can do.

So I hope that you get one of these in the mail, it was always fun to get mail when I was younger.

Okay, looks like it's time to say goodbye.

I don't think we'll have time to sing our goodbye song, but instead I'll tell you what we're gonna do tomorrow.

So tomorrow, we're gonna paint our butterflies, we're gonna get really messy.

We're gonna learn how to mix different colors together to make whole new colors.

Our colors are gonna transform just like our caterpillars did.

Okay my friends, until tomorrow, Miss Laura sends you a big squeeze and a big smooch, and reminds you to read and to play and to use your imagination everyday.

Goodbye.

(cheerful guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (cheerful guitar music)