Saying goodbye to our Butterfly friends!

We have had such an exciting two weeks!  Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming a new friend to our class :)  We have also been watching our classroom caterpillars turn into their chrysalis and then we watched them turn into beautiful painted lady butterflies!!

We transferred our chrysalis to the mesh netting.  We put 2 in each and then our last mesh netting had 3. 

A closer look ... 

Here is what the chrysalis looked like when we put them into the mesh netting

H.M made a butterfly to put in the butterfly cage! 

After the butterflies emerged from their chrysalis we put them out at the science center for the children to take a closer look.  D.R (SK) decided he wanted to draw them

S.B and S.Y watching our beautiful butterflies!

L.M made a butterfly book

R.D and H.M made some beautiful art  :)

We have been doing a great deal of writing in the past two weeks!!! 

We also turned out dramatic play area into a Beauty Salon "Sparkle Bar". 

We made hairstyle books for both girls and boys.  

We also used pipe cleaners to add highlights to our hair  :)  Our beauty salon also had a nail salon area.

We also made some creative art pieces using various flowers and greenery. 

R.T and C.C enjoyed making this art :)

C.S made two superheros "Green-Man, and Fire-Man".

 

M.H made a book.  We love all the writing  :)

E.S and A.B painting at the art center

We have been learning about various types of musical instruments this past week, and how to keep a beat! 

We also made our very own musical instruments from various items collected in the classroom :)

We also had some very creative friends in the block area building boats and islands. 

Friday morning we had the pleasure of releasing our butterflies into the wild. This was such a neat experience for everyone.  Very beautiful!

We are very sad to see them go.  Although it was an amazing experience to watch the life cycle of our butterflies  :)

We hope everyone has a great weekend!  

See you on Monday  :)