Some video clips of our exciting day
2.3. Life Cycles: Recognize that plants and animals have life cycles, and that life cycles vary for different living things
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Releasing of our Butterflies
Friday was most definitely one of the most exciting days in the second grade. I'm sure your children have been sharing with you about their Painted Lady Butterfly. We celebrated raising our caterpillars to adulthood by releasing these beautiful fragile insects into their natural environment on Friday afternoon. It was a perfect warm sunny day to watch our butterflies flutter into the sky. Excitement has been building over the past couple of weeks as we have observed the stages of the Life Cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly from caterpillar to the chrysalis to butterfly. It was fascinating to watch this week as the butterflies slowly emerged from their chrysalises. The students have documented each stage of the life cycle by taking pictures on the ipads. They are also working on creating their own butterfly books using crayon resist illustrations.
Science Standard
2.3. Life Cycles: Recognize that plants and animals have life cycles, and that life cycles vary for different living things
2.3. Life Cycles: Recognize that plants and animals have life cycles, and that life cycles vary for different living things
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This was a great project! Antonio really enjoyed the cycle of the butterflies!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Antonio enjoyed this science unit. It was a class favorite!
DeleteAmazing project! I love listening to the excitement in the kids' voices on the video clips. I can't wait to show Izzy (and Aidan) these pics/videos. My sister still remembers this unit from when you had Emma and Jake :)
ReplyDeleteI totally agree, that's what I love about the videos too. Great way to end our year!
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