Over the past two weeks, the children in Jamaica class have done a wonderful job of caring for and nurturing 5 caterpillars through their life cycle from caterpillar to butterfly.
Each morning the children have been excited to carefully observe the creatures and see the changes that take place throughout their metamorphosis.
The caterpillars grew quickly and began making their cocoons by hanging down from the lid of the container. Todor said "It's moving! They're gonna turn into a butterfly now" while Evelin excitedly made predictions about how the butterflies might look: "Butterflies coming out! Small and pink, all gonna be pink and pink wings".
Our predictions weren't quite right, but the children were all amazed to see the butterflies emerge from their cocoons. Mohammad commented "They have anntenae and wings now - they are not caterpillars anymore". Riley counted the butterflies he could see: "I can see 2 butterflies, they got orange to eat". Francesca noticed "They have patterns on their wings, and they only have little mouths"
We have loved caring for the butterflies in our classroom, but we all decided the butterflies would be happier in our outside area. Ty warned us "Don't put them near the climbing frame - they might get squished!". Tilly suggested "Maybe we could put them in the forest?"
And so we did...
