We observed our caterpillars, and cooperatively built lists of adjectives to use in our writing.
August 7 - Final butterfly! We raised more than 10 butterflies from caterpillar to butterfly!
August 5 - Another Monarch butterfly emerged today!
August 4 - This butterfly didn't stick around for a picture.
August 4 - Two more butterflies today. Only this one stayed around for a picture.
August 2 - Another butterfly! He'll rest on flowers in the enclosure until morning.
August 2 - This butterfly emerged today and seemed to like our hosta flowers.
August 1 - This butterfly was released in the garden!
July 31 - First butterfly of the day.
July 31 - A butterfly emerges.
July 31 - This is the second butterfly of the day.
A caterpillar completed his metamorphosis, and was released on July 30th!
Last day of summer school! Minute to Win It Games.
Last day - Minute to Win It Games!
Last day! Minute to Win It games.
Recess - Indoor Recess doesn't stop a soccer game.
We learned about temperature and changes. We used comparative words when describing the changes in our ice blocks.
We learned about magnetism!
We painted beautiful butterflies, and made them magnetic!
We created butterflies and made them fly.
We read and listened so that we could speak and write about the butterfly life cycle.
Sometimes our caterpillars were difficult to see.
We kept our caterpillars safely in their habitats, but used our rulers to help us estimate their length.
We wrote in our notebooks each day to express our opinions and record our observations.
We used what we know about measurement to estimate the length of our caterpillars in inches and centimeters..