Last week we began learning about life cycles. As an example of a life cycle, we are going to be observing the life cycle of a Painted Lady Butterfly. Each day the students wrote in their observation journal, describing how our caterpillars changed over time. We read lots of great books about butterflies and learned many interesting facts about them. Did you know that caterpillars shed their skin? I have been doing this project for 7 years and I just learned that! Also, did you know that caterpillars taste with their feet? Pretty cool stuff!
Here is a beginning of the week picture of our caterpillars. They started out very teeny. We learned that baby caterpillars love to eat and move. They did both! They ate and ate and ate and were constantly on the move!
By the end of the week, our caterpillars had changed quite a bit! They had eaten almost all of the food in their container and had more than tripled in size!
By Monday, they had undergone quite a transformation! The children were so excited and surprised to come in first thing Monday morning and see that our caterpillars had made their chrysalides over the weekend!
Now we're just waiting for our wings! You can read more about this in this great book by the same title.
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