A comprehensive Nursery weekly lesson plan for Week 1 themed around Butterflies. Children investigate a butterfly's features, parts, and life cycle through hands-on activities, painting, letter Aa phonics, and color yellow identification.
What children learn
- Identify a butterfly and describe its main body parts.
- Recognise the stages in a butterfly's life cycle.
- Recognise, trace, and write the letter Aa and its sound.
- Identify yellow and practise standing, sleeping, and curved lines.
Key activities
- Identifying butterflies from their visible features
- Building a butterfly from leaves, twigs, and other loose parts
- Sequencing egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly pictures
- Creating a butterfly life-cycle model
- Making a symmetrical butterfly with blob painting
You’ll need
butterfly and life-cycle pictures, drawing sheets and chalk, leaves and twigs, seeds and legumes, cotton balls and buttons, yellow paper and paint, letter Aa cards, sand or rice trays
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy