Layla received caterpillars in her Easter basket this year. Well, she actually received a caterpillar certificate and butterfly net but the caterpillars arrived in the mail a couple days later.
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| The caterpillars at about a week old. |
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| Layla, the scientist. The magnifying glass came in handy at the beginning, the caterpillars were teeny! |
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| Layla was so excited when they came in the mail. We had to drive right to Ryan's school to show him. |
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| From caterpillar to chrysalis! Layla and I actually saw one transforming, very neat. |
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| Counting the chrysalides....four. One more to go! |
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When I taught kindergarten, Ryan was my go to "transfer the chrysalides from the jar to net" guy.
Four years later, he is still dealing with my caterpillars :)
Layla has really gotten into this little project and loves rattling off the life cycle to you, especially when she gets to the "beautiful butterfly" stage. I will update when we (hopefully) have butterflies!
In case you are interested, the butterflies came from Amazon. I also love the book From Caterpillar to Butterfly. |
4 comments:
We used to do this every year, Kristin....LOVE it. When you are ready to hatch an egg, I have an incubator that you can borrow....that was also a very fun project. We hatched eggs for 4 or 5 years in a row. Love, Georgi
So fun for her! We did this every year in first grade too and I remember needing someone to transfer mine over ever year. So I totally get that! Enjoy! She will be so excited when the butterflies hatch.
Morning -
This project was a huge hit when I did preschool :)) Just be sure when you release the butterflies outside - there are NO birds flying by!! That was kinda hard to explain to all the smiling faces....
Love,
Super AA
Hello my kids--
Our little Layla is having fun and learning all at the same time!
Way to go Mom & Dad!
Hopefully the kitkats will leave the container alone.
love to all, sa J
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