Exploring Life Cycles

Lesson 11
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ELA

Unit 7

Kindergarten

Lesson 11 of 22

Objective


Predict the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle and what happens at each stage.

Readings and Materials


  • Book: Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert 

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Target Task


Discussion & Writing Prompt

What do you think are the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle? What happens at each stage?

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Key Questions


  • What do you think is the first stage in a butterfly’s life cycle?

  • What do you think is the second stage in a butterfly’s life cycle?

  • What are the next stages of a butterfly’s life cycle?

  • What do the butterflies do when they are fully grown?

Vocabulary


cling

v.

to hold on tightly

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Common Core Standards


  • RI.K.3 — With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
  • RI.K.7 — With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

Supporting Standards

RI.K.1
RI.K.10
SL.K.1
SL.K.2
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