This was a very exciting week! On Tuesday we had our first 2 butterflies emerge! The week continued to become more and more exciting as more butterflies emerged and we began to wonder where they would go when we released them at the end of the week. We watched the following video "Goin' Down To Mexico (The Monarch Butterfly Song)" that helped us answer this question. We also had a few questions about the changes we saw from baby caterpillars to butterflies so we watched the video How does a caterpillar change into a butterfly?

Our butterflies inside the classroom.

On Friday (just before our morning recess) we released our 20+ butterflies! Some of them were so comfortable in their cozy home, that I had to lift them out with their food :).

This week we also said Goodbye, Thank You, and We'll Miss You to Mr. Michel who has moved to a school in Orleans where he can be closer to family. We made a special book for him with different reasons why we are thankful for him (for example: Thank you for... "your help" (EO), "doing a good job" (AL), "your wonderful work" (KG), "keeping our school pretty" (SP), "making our school so clean and being so helpful" (SE), "shoveling snow" (JM), and "not leaving any spots of dirt" (CS).