Butterfly Fever!

Most of you have probably heard, but we have been raising Monarchs in our classroom.  We started the school year with three tiny white eggs on a milkweed plant and just one day into the year, our eggs began hatching into teeny caterpillars.  Their stripes began to show after two days and they grew and grew.  Over Labor Day weekend, our 3 caterpillars made chrysalises and we have been checking on them every day since.  Today our first butterfly emerged from HER chrysalis!  (Ask your child how we know it is a girl?!)  We are hopeful that the other two will come out tomorrow so we can let them all go together.  Take a look at our pictures of each stage (except egg- I forgot to take one of that!).