Lesson Plan: Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Today's lesson was focused on learning the life cycle of a Butterfly. How many stages does a butterfly go through in it’s life? What is each stage called and how do they differ from one another? How can you compare the growth of a butterfly to the growth of other living things? We started our lesson with some critical thinking and drawing up a KWL chart.

Next, we sung along to The Butterfly Song and examened real-life photos of butterflies and their different stages of growth. We read the book “Are You a Butterfly?” by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries.

After reading, we re-examined the photos and the children took turns aranging the life cycles in order, and discussed the paralells between the growth of butterflies and the growth of us humans. 

Each child worked on their own copy of the Life Cycle of a Butterfly worksheet to complete and present to the class, where we then proceded to fill out the "Learned" section of our KLW chart. 

If your child would like to work on the enrichment activity at home and didn't have the chance to do so already in class, download and print this free Draw the Life Cycle of a Butterfly Worksheet.