Caterpillars!

We have been absolutely fascinated by our delivery of caterpillars (last Friday.) we have watched them crawl, munch on their food and grow quite a bit since their arrival to BMS. We have two jars of caterpillars with 5 caterpillars in each jar. Almost all of the caterpillars have formed chrysalis, where they will remain for another two weeks or so until thy are ready to emerge as monarch butterflies. On Friday we watched a time lapse video of the metamorphosis of the monarch butterfly-- the friends were mesmerized! Later, we participated in a sensory and movement experience representing the process. The children pretended to be eggs on leaves, wiggled and crawled like caterpillars, went for a ride wrapped in a sheet like chrysalis, and flew around the classroom like butterflies! So much fun!