What an Awesome Surprise!

Since we still had many questions that were not answered from our story, we had to find a way to figure out the answers. We learned that two ways we can find out more information is to ask good questions and look up information in a nonfiction book or on the Internet. We also talked about observation and that we can look at and watch things to learn more information. We thought maybe we could convince Mrs. Friedrich to take us outside to look for some caterpillars, but she actually had a huge surprise for us! She got us 12 tiny caterpillars! Mrs. Friedrich said the caterpillars were delivered this morning. She thinks they are about 3 days old. They are really tiny. They are smaller than our fingernails! We names them Cookie, Coconut, Candy, Cookie Dough, Twinkie, Brownie, Lovey, Cutie, Tiny, Reese's Pieces, Smiley and Rufus! We are going to observe the caterpillars change into butterflies right in our classroom!

We talked about how this wasn't the natural habitat for the caterpillars, but it was ok because we were using the caterpillars to learn. We found out it would take almost a month for them to have a complete life cycle and become Painted Lady Butterflies. It is going to be really hard to be so patient… but Mrs. Friedrich knows we can do it! The caterpillars are in 2 containers. At the bottom of each container is food. The food is yellow. They are crawling all of over the containers. We are keeping them on the counter and 2 kids can observe them at a time, so we don’t scare them. We know to observe with our eyes, not our hands. We notice that they are black and have a lot of feet. They are also very fuzzy. Be sure to read everyday so you can observe the caterpillars along with us!