I asked Mark if the class was hatching butterflies this spring and he they didn't have any in his classroom! Shocked, I asked Mikayla if she remembered the butterflies in first grade. She said she didn't have butterflies in first grade either. WHAT?! Jill Foy, Valerie Scott's Mom, was a teacher at Coral Canyon before she passed away and the first grade team had a butterfly unit. They learned about caterpillars and butterflies and then purchased caterpillars and watched them change and released them as butterflies.
Since Coral Canyon wasn't doing this anymore, I decided that we should purchase them as a family and watch them change. They were cooler than I thought they'd be! Most have formed a chrysalis. They were so small when they came in the mail.
We moved them to the butterfly cage when they were all cocoons. Then it was time to wait until they started to emerge as butterflies.
It was pretty cool!
Mikayla liked how they let you hold them. She said it's super cool!
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