Butterfly Project

Our butterflies emerged from their chrysalis' this week. Two emerged on Thursday and two on Friday. Lily had to help the first one get onto his feet as his chrysalis was not hanging and he couldn't stand up. It was so exciting to watch the miracle of larvae grow into fat catipillars who became pupa and then finally a beautiful butterfly.
We are currently keeping the butterflies in a mesh bag with greenery, flowers and q-tips of sugar water. The weather has been on the cold side so we will delay releasing them until it warms up.

Yellowstone

Building w/ Crackers & Peanut Butter

Mrs. Pepper & Mr. Apple

Nature Painting

Yesterday Lily and I went for a walk in Idlewild Park. It was a beautiful, warm afternoon and we used the opportunity to gather pinecones, leaves and grasses for our science project. Lily is studying plant structure and life cycles. Today we painted the leaves and then pressed into her nature journal.

Indian Village

Lily and Gabe built Plains Indian villages during Thanksgiving at Grandma's house (back in November!). They first gathered leaves, grasses, branches from outside; dried beans and paper from inside and then had a great time composing the setting!

Royal Tyrell Museum

We had an awesome field trip to Drumheller Lily learned how to identify raptors, learned how fossils are formed, saw lots of different dinosaurs and even a mammoth and saber tooth cats.