Life Cycles: Research and Writing

Do you love teaching about life cycles? I sure do! In this blog post I give a lot of different examples of research and writing with frogs, chickens, praying mantis, butterflies, bumble bees and ladybugs. 

There are a lot of great mentor texts to use when you are teaching life cycles. Here are some of my favorites: 

Gail Gibbons has a lot of great mentor texts for teaching life cycles. 

Make a butterfly research lapbook. You can have your students make a beautiful cover and any templates they complete will be stapled inside the lapbook. So fun!  

Chicken Lapbook: 

Frog Life Cycle Craftivity: 

Frog Lapbook: 

Ladybug Life Cycle Writing Craftivity: 

Pumpkin Life Cycle Craftivity:

Sunflower Life Cycle Research Journal: 

In this journal, the students plant a sunflower seed and then record their observations each day.

Praying Mantis Lapbook: 

Spider Lapbook: 

If you're interested in checking out my Life Cycle BUNDLE click here. You can also check out these resource individually from the BUNDLE. 

Happy Teaching!

Love, Kara