Metamorphosis

A couple weeks ago a jar with our 5 caterpillars arrived in the mail! We checked on them daily and every few days Corban and Abigail would dictate and draw 

what they saw. 

Then one day, 3 of the caterpillars attached themselves to the top of the jar and began to change into their chrysalis (the other 2 did the same on bottom of jar)

We waited a couple days and then I carefully moved them to the larger butterfly home.  We waited, and checked, and continued to draw/write what we saw.  

 

While we waited, Corban and Abigail watched and cared for electronic caterpillars/butterflies:

 

Then, one day we woke to find one Painted Lady butterfly had emerged overnight!  

And that afternoon, we watched as the second climbed out of its cocoon and gently opened its wings for the first time! 

After a few days (we fed them sugar water), we released the butterflies into our yard

 

 

During the week, we got lots of books from the library to read about butterflies!

      

We ate butterfly shaped food,

 

               

 drew butterflies,

and learned about the life cycle:

As Corban and Abigail studied butterflies for the letter B,

Hadassah started saying "Ball" and "Book"!

 

and we made Mother's Day cards!