Flat Stanley, Our Garden, and Butterfly Life Cycle

Our Habitats on Display

  

Good job on the making of the habitats. Each one was different and the students enjoyed looking at each others and learning what kind of animals and plants live in a certain habitat.

Our Painted Lady Butterflies

This is our Butterfly Pavilion. At the top you can see the chrysalis hanging down. We put them in their new home after watching the larva turn to a catepillar and then form a pupa.

After about 10 days, the butterflies began to emerge. There was one that stayed inside the chrysalis a day longer.

When the butterflies came out, they hung and dried their wings for a while.

It was extremely exciting when the butterflies began to fly around the cage.

Everyone like to watch them.

We had to put something sweet inside the cage for the butterflies to eat.

We took the cage outside after a few days and let all five butterflies go. We wished them a good life.

Funny thing is, three of them landed back in the bowl we had used in the pavilion. They were happy to stay and sit on the flowers that were easy to find. Later we saw them all fly away. We enjoyed watching the life cycle of the Painted Lady Butterflies take place in our classroom.

Happy April birthday!

Spring is Here

Something is eating our garden plants right at the stem. We dug around and found a big fat cut worm. He was in big trouble.

Officer Wingate was a part of a Flat Stanley adventure. Here he is reporting.

We made dinosaur reports. We learned about different kinds of dinosaurs, when they lived and what they ate. We also learned about fossils.

Some dinosaurs were quite fierce.

Some dinosaurs were nice.

Some had plates, some had long necks.

Some had fancy feathers, some had big claws.

Some were small, some were not.

Some dinosaurs ate plants, some ate meat. Lots to learn about dinosaurs.

Spring means getting to work outside.

Doing papers together is fun work.

Helping each other makes it go faster.

Growing our minds outside near the garden.

Working and thinking together.

Partner work is fun work.

Sometimes you don't need a partner.

Happy Birthday!

Flat Stanley returns from Minnesota.

This car was parked outside my house one morning.

So was this big truck parked out in front. I found out that one of my neighbors was having visitors from Colorado.