Study of Caterpillars

Bugville Butterfly Treehouse

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
                           R. Buckminster Fuller

Learning can be so enjoyable, especially when your having fun. We arrived home the other day from a quick trip to the store, to find a caterpillar with a horn. It was pretty big and my girls wanted to see what it would change into. They were eager to put it into their Butterfly treehouse.  Will update when our caterpillar wants to have the big reveal. :) What a wonderful study and it's fun to see the girls excited about learning new things. Which brings me to share the wonderful resources we are finding and using.

I found a wonderful site for bug identification

WHAT'S THAT BUG

Butterfly & Caterpillar Resources

Butterfly Life Cycle Sequencing Cards

Life Cycle of a Butterfly A Printable Book for Early Readers

Caterpillar Fact Sheet

Very Hungry Caterpillar Mini Book

Caterpillar Maze

Thematic Units - Butterfly & Caterpillar

Ideas for using The Very Hungry Caterpillar Book

                                    Happy Studies!

    

                   

A storm blew in...

Its been a crazy few days. Storms blew in and left our town with no electric and a huge mess to clean up. Grain Elevators demolished, tress uprooted, and even cars and houses smashed. Thats another reason I haven't blogged, no connection. Well the electric is back now, and I'm praying it will stay. You see we have more storms moving in and hopefully they will not be severe.

Oh a better note, the rains left huge puddles of water everywhere, and we had a mini pond in our backyard. So I threw bathing suits on the girls and let them jump on in.



During clean up of the limbs that had fell we found a cute little caterpillar. So we made a home for it. Hopefully we can see it make a cocoon and turn into a beautiful butterfly.

Have a great Day!