{"id":247041,"date":"2010-01-29T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2278"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:51:51","slug":"teaching-life-science-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-waiting-for-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247041","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Life Science with Children\u2019s Literature:  Waiting for Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/waiting-for-wings.JPG\" title=\"waiting-for-wings.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/waiting-for-wings.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"waiting-for-wings.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<strong>Introduction and Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Waiting-Wings-Lois-Ehlert\/dp\/0152026088\">Waiting for Wings<\/a>, written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert, is a wonderful book for young learners that explains the life cycle of a butterfly.\u00a0 With beautiful illustrations and simple explanations, <em>Waiting for Wings<\/em> is a great teacher&#8217;s resource for teaching life cycles.\u00a0 We can see the butterfly start as a tiny egg, then turn into larvae, then spin into a chrysalis and finally we see the beautiful butterfly emerge.\u00a0 Vivid illustrations of flowers and butterflies are in the book as well as an identification guide for students to find examples of flowers and butterflies outdoors.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connection <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Waiting-Wings-Lois-Ehlert\/dp\/0152026088\">Waiting for Wings <\/a>is a great resource to use for a kindergarten or first grade lesson on life cycles.\u00a0 The bright illustrations are wonderful for young elementary learners.\u00a0 The identification guide in the back would be great to use in a hands-on activity.\u00a0 Students could go outside and identify butterflies and flowers that may be around the school yard.\u00a0 (Virginia SOL K.7)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Additional Resources <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calicocookie.com\/butterflies.html\">Butterfly Unit\u00a0<\/a> &#8211; Great unit on butterflies with science activities, songs, poetry, art activities, math activities and language arts activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calicocookie.com\/butterflies.html\">Life Cycle of a Butterfly Lesson<\/a> &#8211; Lesson on identifying the four stages in the life cycle of a butterfly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/butterfly\/books\/butterflylifecycle\/\">Life Cycle of a Butterfly Booklet<\/a> &#8211; Small booklet for children to cut out and label each stage of butterfly life cycle.\u00a0 They can then put the pages in order and make a small booklet to keep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billybear4kids.com\/butterfly\/colorbook.html\">Butterfly Coloring Pages<\/a> &#8211; Various pages of butterflies to color.\u00a0 Great for kindergarten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Book:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Waiting-Wings-Lois-Ehlert\/dp\/0152026088\">Waiting for Wings<\/a><strong><br \/>\nAuthor:\u00a0<\/strong> Lois Ehlert<strong><br \/>\nIllustrator:<\/strong>\u00a0 Lois Ehlert<strong><br \/>\nPublisher:<\/strong>\u00a0 Harcourt Books<strong><br \/>\nPublication Date:<\/strong>\u00a0 2001<strong><br \/>\nPages:<\/strong>\u00a0 36<strong><br \/>\nGrade Range:<\/strong>\u00a0 K-1<strong><br \/>\nISBN:\u00a0<\/strong> 978-0-15-202608-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Introduction and Summary Waiting for Wings, written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert, is a wonderful book for young learners that explains the life cycle of a butterfly.\u00a0 With beautiful illustrations and simple explanations, Waiting for Wings is a great teacher&#8217;s resource for teaching life cycles.\u00a0 We can see the butterfly start as a tiny egg, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}