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I know, I know... most of you are already long into your summer break... but my school hasn't ended yet!  This Monday will be the 176th day of school... and the final day for my kiddos! As such, I've been putting together my summer vacation packet for them and I decided to go with a day by day packet! The worksheets included follow a day by day pattern: Math Monday Tell Me About Science Tuesday Writing Wednesday Sight Words Thursday Phonics Friday The following skills are addressed: Math Monday Addition, Subtraction, Problem Solving, Numbers 0-20, Patterns, More and Less Tell Me About Science Tuesday Summer, Autumn, Five Senses, Seeds We Eat, Winter, Animals in Winter, Keeping Healthy, Spring, Butterfly Life Cycle Writing Wednesday Telling a story using first, next, and last Sight Words Thursday away, about, around, any, beside, boy, could, come, came, close, does, down, every, eat, first, from, funny, find, gave, going, help, how, inside, into, just, jump, knew, know, look, li...

We just finished up our fun and exciting butterfly life cycle unit... we bought the caterpillar kit and watched them turn into butterflies.  The kids loved it! It was a really fun unit... we released our butterflies into the while and I thought we were done... \ UNTIL.... I looked in the butterfly container and saw hundreds of blue things.  "Blue what?" you ask!?  Blue EGGS!!!  I asked a bunch of people who have done this before (because of course this was my first time raising butterflies) and no one had that happen before.  Well... lo and behold, I get to school one morning last week and there are HUNDREDS of tiny caterpillar larva EVERYWHERE! You see those tiny black 2 millimeter big specs?  Well... they move. They are actually tiny little baby caterpillars! You wouldn't know it... but they are FAST.  Within a few hours, they were ALL OVER my desk.  I kid you not.  See those little buggers!? Today my para and I spent an hour collecting the...