We released our butterflies to the outdoors on Monday, October 22. We will miss our lovely creatures that spent 27 days in our classroom, but we sent them off with some heartfelt letters of love! We cared for our caterpillars, watched them molt several times, observed the chrysalis stage, and even caught a glimpse of a few emerging from their chrysalises with crumpled wings. We watched them pump their wings and unfurl their proboscis to sip sugar water from the sponges we soaked. The release was happy and sad at the same time. The butterflies were not in a big hurry to leave their friends from class 2-1. They landed on our shirts, and shoulders and open hands. Farewell 2-1 butterflies!
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Butterfly Release
We released our butterflies to the outdoors on Monday, October 22. We will miss our lovely creatures that spent 27 days in our classroom, but we sent them off with some heartfelt letters of love! We cared for our caterpillars, watched them molt several times, observed the chrysalis stage, and even caught a glimpse of a few emerging from their chrysalises with crumpled wings. We watched them pump their wings and unfurl their proboscis to sip sugar water from the sponges we soaked. The release was happy and sad at the same time. The butterflies were not in a big hurry to leave their friends from class 2-1. They landed on our shirts, and shoulders and open hands. Farewell 2-1 butterflies!
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