Caterpillaralooza

I found 3 Monarch caterpillars over Labor Day weekend.  We shared one with Mrs. Burriss' class.  Miss Sheehan found 2 more on Tuesday night and we shared one of those with Ms. Parker's class, leaving us with 3 caterpillars in our butterfly night.  The addition of these creatures to the classroom has encouraged a lot of great observations, questions and insights from the students.  When I left the classroom tonight, there was one chrysalis, one caterpillar hanging in a "j" ready to make a chrysalis and the third caterpillar was crawling around the top of the net.  I expect they will all be in the chrysalis stage by tomorrow morning.

The chrysalis.  This amazes me every year!