Caterpillars and Apples

This week we adopted a monarch caterpillar from Sam's grandma's class (Robin Gannon) and we have been watching him grow daily.  We fed him milkweed and he looks like he is getting ready to enter the next stage of develpment.  It was fun reading books about these fascinating critters and acting out all of the stages.

We also had a great time with our apple study.  We sorted them by color and size, found specific features about each one and made delicious applesauce.  We also described apples by color, texture and taste and created some great apple art.  

checking our the Monarch Caterpillar

graphing our apples

tasting our yummy applesauce

acting out the stages of develpment from egg to butterfly

creating symmetry by using eye droppers and watercolors on coffee filter papers and transforming it to 

butterfllies

following lines with jewels

just being silly with baskets!

look what just arrived!  check out our new vehicles and those swings in the background