Caterpillars!

We got our caterpillars on May 6th! We watched them grow and by Monday May 12th they had made cocoons! Our other five caterpillars are going a little slow but it helps us to see the process of them growing!

 

One week later our first cup of caterpillars turned into cocoons. We were very excited to see them come out. Our second cup of caterpillars were still growing but on May 19th they too made cocoons!!

Finally we had butterflies! We watched them fly, fed them oranges, and watched them in their basket. 

Butterfly Release

We released our butterflies this past Tuesday! The students had so much fun seeing the butterflies fly off into the sky. We met on Tuesday morning outside behind the school near a tree. We then said good bye our butterflies. I took out each butterfly and we watched each one fly away. It was an exciting time for all the kids. Some were sad because they would miss the butterflies but overall everyone was excited for our butterflies to continue on the cycle of life.

Time for Caterpillars!!!

 On April 9th our Caterpillars came in the mail! I was soooo excited that the other teachers were laughing at my childlike enthusiasm! I just couldn't help myself, I was excited to show the kids and to see our five little caterpillars grow. This is what they looked like when we got them, aren't they sooo cute and tiny!

Students came up with names and we wrote them down and put them in a bucket. I pulled out five names for our caterpillars and here is what we came up with.

When we came back to school from the weekend I came in to see that four of our caterpillars had made their cocoons. Our fifth little Caterpillar unfortunately died, however we were excited that our little caterpillars were growing and beginning to change.

I had to take the paper off the cup that had our cocoons on it. I was terrified that I was going to kill them BUT I got them into our butterfly net perfectly!

Caterpillars and Butterflies

This month a student and her family brought in a pink lady butterfly project for us to do in class. It was very exciting because she brought in a small cup, inside the cup were caterpillars! Over the next two weeks we watched the caterpillars grow until they were really long and fat. After that we watched them make a chrysalis! Over the next week we watched them very closely being very careful not to move them. Then this past Monday one butterfly came out of it's cocoon! Then on Tuesday 3 butterflies came out of their cocoons. The last butterfly came out on Wednesday and all the kids were very excited that all five of our caterpillars became butterflies. Over the course of the week Ms. Williamson fed the butterflies sugar water so that they had something to eat. Then today we released them behind our school! It was very exciting and we enjoyed every moment of it! Thank you to the Truban family for providing us with this cool science experiment!