On Friday, we said goodbye to our butterflies. The students enjoyed learning about the life cycle of the butterfly.
When our caterpillars first arrived they were only a few days old and very very small (about the size of our thumbnail)
They quickly grew and molted several times. Soon they were this big.........
One day we came to school and they were hanging in a J shape from a silk button at the top of their cup. They were very still and didn't move all day..........
The next day we found the caterpillars had molted a final time and were in their chrysalis. At this point they came out of the cups and were hung in the net.
We waited and waited and waited some more. We noticed the chrysalides were getting darker and the wings were starting to show.
All of a sudden we looked and had butterflies. We were beyond excited!
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