Butterfly Battle

We are enjoying our lapbook, Butterfly Battle, we received from the Homeschool Swap.  You can find the lapbook at http:///www.yeeshallknow.com. We are reading the Magic School Bus A Science Chapter Book #16 Butterfly Battle. 

To go along with this study we are adding new hosts plants to our butterfly garden.  Each one of the three oldest picked a butterfly that they would like to observe and watch as it goes through metamorphosis.  I will post more on this next week when we get our hosts plants.

So far in the book we have learned

To help remember the 4 stages the kids acted it out

 egg

 caterpillar

 chrysalis

butterfly

We read that a newborn caterpillar eats.....

the shell of it's own egg then it eats the leaf where it hatched.

We read that Monarch butterflies are poisonous because they eat poisonous milkweed.

We learned that Monarch butterflies do not make the round trip when migrating and that they lay their eggs as they are heading south.

Lastly we learned that the Painted Lady

photo courtesy of http://www.butterflyutopia.com/live_butterfly_kit_feeder.html

can migrate from Africa to Iceland.

We can't wait to discover many new facts about butterflies and to experience first hand the life cycle of a few new varieties this year.  To see pictures/video of the life cycle from previous years of the Monarch check out the Monarch link on the right hand side of our blog.