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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Exploring the caterpillar life cycle!

For the past 19 days we have been exploring the caterpillar life cycle.  19 days ago these little guys were so tiny you barely could see them!  You needed a microscope to see them when they arrived!  But now they are growing and some of them are huge!  We have been feeding them a lot of milkweed.  We almost ran out!  We clean the cages twice a week.  We clean the cages so that it doesn't get stinky from the frass.   Frass is caterpillar waste.  We try to give them fresh milkweed everyday.  In our Science Notebooks we sketch the caterpillars and write about how they are growing.  Some of us have been measuring our caterpillars to keep track of their growth.  We also record our wonderings about the caterpillar lifecycle!
  ~Written by Jack
P.S. Mrs. Crowther's class has 2 chrysalises.

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