Life Cycle of the Butterfly!

Since we have been learning about life cycles in science this week, we made a model of the life cycle of a butterfly out of pasta!  Challenge your students to tell you all four stages (egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly). They had a great time making the model and they are adorable! :)

We have also been practicing a reading comprehension strategy called "asking questions". We have been thinking about questions we want to ask ourselves/others while we read to help us understand. While we were reading a book about the butterfly life cycle today, your kids came up with some great "I wonder" questions.

I wonder...

1. Why do butterflies have antennae's instead of a nose?
2. Why don't they hatch from an egg looking like a butterfly?
3. Why do they have to get into a chrysalis to become a butterfly?

These are all questions the kids came up with themselves!! You may want to discuss them this weekend as a review.