This summer I decided we’re going to have a daily schedule (more on that later. it’s similar to last year’s only this year it includes chores!) and a weekly theme. I wanted to have this all ready before school ended, but alas I did not, so now we’re kind of winging it! On that note, this week’s theme is butterflies. We picked out a few books about butterflies from the library yesterday and today we did a fun butterfly coloring project. Eve wore her wings for awhile (taped to her back) then “hid” her butterfly on the chair, saying that it’s blue wings were camouflaging it on the blue chair.

Eve working on her butterfly.

My butterfly

Mine and Lex's, flying high. These are the camouflage undersides. Did you know that many butterflies and moths have camouflage on the outside and bright colors on the insides? It's a defense mechanism.

I didn't get a very good picture of his. I'll hang Eve's tomorrow and try to get a picture of all three together. They are pretty. I'm kind of proud of this project :)

They learned the differences between a butterfly and a moth, the various ways butterflies and moths protect themselves from predators (including camouflage), and what their predators are. We also talked about the life-cycle, which is something both of them have talked about in school before. Tomorrow I have a WW meeting and I just now printed some butterfly coloring pages and activity sheets for them to do at the meeting. I also found a few painting projects that we’ll probably do tomorrow afternoon and Friday. I love the Internet :)

I have a long list of other weekly theme ideas, including camping, construction, photography, nature, ocean, etc. I’m going to fit some of them in to weeks we already have plans and others will just fall into empty weeks. So far I have 15 themes in mind so we probably won’t get to all of them this summer :)