Lifecycles in the classroom!

We are lucky enough to have been given some Painted Lady caterpillars via Mrs. Deneka and the Creature Comforts Cottage. We are excited to see the lifecycle from the caterpillar to butterfly stage! We learned that this is called "metamorphosis".

Yesterday, we incubated 5 duck eggs in Mrs. Wielgosh's classroom. We got them locally from Kay Bales, who has a whole bunch of ducks and eggs at her farm. Thank you, Mrs. Bales!

At the end of the day, Mrs. Robinson added 2 chicken eggs to the incubator that Mrs. Deneka kindly shared with us, also from the Creature Comforts Cottage.

AND...if you look VERY closely, you can see a baby praying mantis in this picture! Mrs. Wielgosh brought some praying mantis egg cases in last week. We are still waiting for those to hatch, but last night she saw Mrs. Reid over at Gillis School who gave her an egg casing that had hatched some praying mantises already. They are so tiny!

So, we have a lot of great observations, wonders, hatchings, and more going on in the 1/2 Multi-Age end of the school!