Our caterpillars did a lot of eating, molting and growing this week. We saw evidence of their food disappearing and noticed little black balls of molted skin. Our measurements showed that they were longer, and we could see they were thicker too. On Wednesday, we noticed that several of them were hanging from the top in a "J" shape.
By Thursday, we no longer had caterpillars - we had 5 chrysalises! We carefully moved them into a large net cage so that there will be room for butterflies when they emerge. We hope this happens before the long Memorial Day weekend! (or after!)
We read about bees and learned why they are such an important and helpful insect. We also began to learn about ladybugs.
We continued to talk about friendship skills in our social skill lessons. We learned how to think and discuss possible solutions when we can't agree on what to play with a friend.
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