Butterfly Monitors

Yesterday, after 28 days we let our Butterflies go into the wild. As we were taking out the leaves and sticks from our Butterfly  habitat, we noticed little blue dots on one of the leaves.

Our Butterflies laid eggs! Some of them even have started the hatch into baby caterpillars!

After 21 days we have 4 Butterflies!

 

 

During the last two months of school, our class will be watching caterpillars turn into butterflies. Each day, two students will be given the job of "Butterfly Monitor". They will be in charge of making sure that our caterpillars have enough food and are out of the sunlight. Once the caterpillars have started to build their chrysalis, they will be moved into an enclosure so they can grow into Butterflies. Children will then be in charge of making sure the Butterflies have enough food and a happy habitat enclosure.

Pea Plants

Students will be bringing home their pea plants on Friday, May 13th. They will be in Jiffy pots which can be planted right into the ground.

We have been growing our plants in mini-greenhouses.

Pea seeds were soaked in water 2 hours before planting. We put our seeds into Ziplock bags with a wet cotton ball. Then we taped our bags to the windows, right in the path of the sunlight.

Our seeds started to grow within 3 days!!