by Mrs. Reber's Class
Fall 2008
We are raising Monarch butterflies!
Our caterpillars
hatched from tiny eggs.
Milkweed is the
only plant
Monarch caterpillars will eat.
Monarch
caterpillars have white,
black and yellow stripes.
Everyday our
caterpillars eat and eat.
They are getting bigger and
bigger!
Soon the caterpillars will climb to
the
of the cage and hang upside
down like the letter J.
This caterpillar shed his skin, and
made a beautiful chrysalis!
At first the chrysalis was
green
with gold spots.
After ten days we could
see the
butterfly's orange and black wings!
This is how our butterfly climbed out!
The new butterfly
hangs upside
down while his wings dry.
Our first butterfly is a boy.
He has black spots on his wings.
