B is for Butterfly

The first week of March was on butterflies. We learned about the life cycle of a butterfly. We acted out their life cycle by hiding under a plastic box for “egg”, crawling on a green blanket on our bellies for “caterpillar”, wrapping up in a blanket for “chrysalis” and then wearing wings made from grocery sacks for “butterfly”. We did crafts showing the four stages of their life cycle, and we learned all about what they eat, how long they live and so forth. We learned about tropical butterflies, their different wing shapes and patterns, their mimicry, and their predators. I ordered a dozen butterfly eggs from a butterfly farm in Florida. They hatched and the caterpillars wouldn’t eat anything I had for them! So they all died. So, we went hiking in the Watson Woods Riparian Habitat and found another caterpillar. He was lethargic, but did eat and poop regularly. We waited for him to make a chrysalis and become a butterfly. We named him “Blackout” because he is black and the butterflies we saw in the Watson Woods were also mostly black. But now we think perhaps he is a grub. Oops! We also drew pictures of Monarch Butterflies, trying to get the markings just right.
Our Bible lesson for this week was from the teaching on regeneration in the New testament. “God can make me new” became our motto with verses like “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone and the new has come!” 2 Cor. 5:17