Butterfly Class

We had butterfly class today at our local nature center located just a couple of miles from our house. Unfortunately it was raining so we could not do our usual walk in the woods and to the pond to look for occurrences in nature. But the girls had a lot of fun. Something very interesting happened as we were leaving class, the girls stopped to see a couple of turtles (whom they touched and played with at our last turtle class)--and Boxy the Box turtle (in her glass case) walked right up to the front of the case and was interacting with the girls--cocking her head back and forth--and just looking at them as they were at her--and Boxy yawned too:)

Anyway, back to butterflies:

We enjoyed playing and acting out Eric Cole's THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR (for some reason, I don't have that book, I'll have to add it to my wish list:)

The Butterfly's Life cycle:

1. An Adult Butterfly lays an egg.
2. The egg hatches into a caterpillar or larva.
3. The caterpillar forms the chrysalis or pupa.
4. The chrysalis matures into a butterfly.