The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Waiting for Wings
Illustrates the life cycle of four common butterflies by featuring butterfly and flower facts, butterfly identification tips, and a guide to creating a butterfly garden.
- Art: make butterflies-coffee filters/water colors, tissue paper, etc., Create, and color a butterfly, give it a name, Make tissue paper flowers with butterflies on them.
- Research: Life cycle of butterfly, make a timeline or drawing, what attracts butterflies
- Questions: What would you do if you had wings? What are other things that fly? What are some things you have to wait for? What “wings” are you waiting for?
- Hands on: Plant a butterfly garden at school or put seeds
in small cups and take home when sprouted
- Writing: Diary of a butterfly
- Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Charlie the Caterpillar by Dom Deluise
- Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons
- Becoming Butterflies by Anne Rockwell
- Magnificent Monarchs by Linda Glaser
- Millions of Monarchs by Connie and Peter Roop
- Gotta Go, Gotta Go by Sam Swope
- Wealth of resouces and lesson plans
- I Like Bugs! Plans, poems, bibliographies, and more
- Monarch Butterfly life cycle photos
- Annette Lamb's 42explore Butterflies