Hello kindergarten families! We are flying through our days. There
are so many special things happening. Besides our large tadpoles, which
we will release, we now have BABY tadpoles. These babies are from the
pair of pet frogs that Mme Warsaba keeps in the office. If they grow
bigger, we will keep them as pets.
Our caterpillars arrived in the mail and we have been busy observing them. The kids each have their own and have named them.
We
also officially started learning about the butterfly life cycle. We
looked at pictures and props before acting out the stages. Did you know
a caterpillar pops its head off as it gets too big for it?! It sheds
its head five times before building its chrysalis. Another interesting
fact: a butterfly isn't just a caterpillar with wings. When it enters
its chrysalis, it breaks down into black goo, a pile of cells which
rebuilds itself into a whole new creature, the butterfly.
We are eggs that have been laid on a leaf.
We are the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
We've come out of our eggs and we are little caterpillars who spend our days
eating, pooping(!), and resting. We also pop our heads off as we outgrow them.
We
are spinning our silk chrysalises as we dangle under a leaf. We break
down into black goo before rebuilding ourselves as butterflies.
We emerge and pump coloured ink into our wings and wait for
them to dry before we can fly. Then we lay new eggs!
Summer's dad, Chris, came in and read to us
Nicolas was pretending to be a Mystery Reader during free-play
We love to play with our caterpillars. They are getting long and fat.
