When I picked Julianna up from preschool today, she had something exciting to tell me: "I got to let one of the butterflies go!"
Her class has studied the life cycles of butterflies and frogs, and has kept caterpillars and tadpoles to observe. The butterflies all hatched from the cocoons over the weekend, and today they were flying around their little net home, ready to go outside. (Three of the tadpoles have turned completely into frogs; the rest are somewhere in-between.)
The teachers drew names to determine who would get to release the butterflies, and Julianna was lucky enough to be one of the children chosen! While her classmates looked on, she let a butterfly climb onto her finger, then carefully moved her finger out of the net habitat to the open air, and off it flew!
I asked her which she liked better: having a butterfly on her finger or holding a snail in her hand (she LOVES that), and she said "the butterfly!" Cool! I wish I could have seen it and taken some photos!
2 comments:
That is so cool! I really enjoyed the story.
Wow J, I have never gotten to do that! What color was your butterfly? xxoo Noni
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