BBQ Chicken and Butterfly Lifecycles

Today was one of those days where I had no inspiration for dinner. I stared at my pantry and looked through Pinterest before finally deciding to come up with my own BBQ chicken.  I had just bought chicken at Publix last night for $1.49/lb.  So we have plenty of chicken in the freezer now.

Here is what I added.

I started with Sweet Vidalia Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce.  I added about a 1/4 cup of brown sugar, a tsp or two of garlic powder, and about a 1/4 cup of white vinegar.  I must say it tasted pretty good.  I always try to taste to make sure that the seasoning is right.


I added a liner to the crockpot.  If you have not used one of these things they are awesome.  Really save trying to clean up a very messy crockpot.

I put two large pieces of chicken in the crockpot and poured the sauce over the chicken.  I put the lid on the crockpot and hopefully we will have a tasty dinner by the time Tim gets home from work.


Today, Alex and I learned about the life cycle of a butterfly.  We began by reading the book From Caterpillar to Butterfly.  As we read, I love that he likes to ask me questions and point out things that he notices.  He has been a counting kick lately.  So today, with every page turn he had to find something to count.  I love it!  After we finished reading the book we worked on a butterfly life cycle craft.

Today our supplies were: construction paper folded into fourths, pencil, three pieces of dyed pasta (I had it left over from when I taught school), and a cotton ball.

We started with the egg. I helped him write the word egg and he then glued on the cotton pieces to represent the eggs.

Next, he wrote the word caterpillar and glued a piece of spiral pasta dyed green to represent the caterpillar to the paper.


Then, he wrote the word chrysalis.  We used a piece of dyed shell pasta to represent the chrysalis and glued it to the paper.

Finally, he wrote the word butterfly and glued a piece of dyed bowtie pasta to the paper to represent the butterfly.

He was excited by what he learned today.  He was ready to show his daddy his artwork and tell him about the life cycle of the butterfly.

This has been a great week learning about the letter B.  Next week, we will be learning about the letter C and caterpillars.

I love seeing him learn more each day.  And I am so excited that he will be ready to start kindergarten in August!