butterflyCThanks to one of our own school parents, our elementary teachers recently gave their students a fun and educational opportunity to raise their very own class butterfly. Raising butterflies is truly an educational experience that every child will enjoy!

Thank you Mrs. Owen for all the hard work, supplies, and knowledge in making this opportunity possible for our students and teachers.  

The educational experience of raising butterflies is something that your children will never forget. They learned about the life cycle of the butterfly as they watched the transformation day by day from the small caterpillar state all the way through the metamorphosis to a butterfly.

Each morning, students were eager to see how far along their butterfly was in its stages of development. They observed how the caterpillar ate and moved, and how it changed features and even color as it grew. During the pupa stage, students watched carefully, and when the time was right, released the adult outside soon after it emerged.

View some of the photos below from our Kindergarten class.