Do you remember at the very beginning of First Grade when we learned about the Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and sent them off to Mexico from our school garden?
Butterfly caterpillars make a chrysalis and moth caterpillars make a cocoon!
Everett found a wooly bear caterpillar and wants to make a habitat for it so he and his family can watch it become a Tiger Moth! That makes him a Lepidopterist; someone who studies or collects moths or butterflies! Here is his wooly bear:
Information your family can help you read!
Videos:
Animal Fact Friday; The Wooly Bear Caterpillar
Wooly Bears With Jeff The Nature Guy
Time Lapse of A Wooly Bear making it's cocoon
Wooly Bear Caterpillars; How To Care For Them
Wooly Bear to Tiger Moth- a kid story
Read Alouds:
Percival The Plain Little Caterpillar
I can't wait to see pictures of your writing and labeled illustrations in your science journals!