Scientific Illustrations

Kuba was learning about the life cycle of the butterfly in first grade this fall.  Their classroom had a butterfly home and about 15 monarch caterpillars munching away on milkweed.  Out of 15 caterpillars only 3 made it to the chrysalis stage and then metamorphosed into butterflies.

The kids created scientific illustrations of the stages of the caterpillar, looking carefully at images of monarch eggs, caterpillars, chrysalis, and butterflies and observed the live ones in their room.   They then made an accordion fold caterpillar book that is pretty cute.  Kuba was painstakingly careful with his illustrations and his coloring.  His engagement with this was just exquisite, as was his final book.