Our trip to Magic Wings, in Deerfield, MA, to support the science portion of our curriculum was a huge success!! J was thrilled when this Rice Paper Butterfly made friends with him.
A gorgeous Postman Butterfly near an equally gorgeous hibiscus. For many, many more photos of butterflies at this conservatory, see my posts from last year's trips here, here, and here.
The boys check out a poster of the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly, which is what our "Mariposa" story was about.
The boys pose with The Map Man in the conservatory. I'm not sure what I like more, the plantings or the butterflies! (Or the button quail. Or the Gouldian Finches.)
And we came home with souvenirs -- these two Monarch chrysalises to replace the one that we raised that didn't make it, and a DVD about Butterflies which not only includes video of all 4 stages of the Monarch, but also clip of a man eating a silkworm caterpillar (which is what made the biggest impression on the boys, and made mommy gag....).Here's keeping our fingers crossed that these little guys make it and we can release them as migrating Monarchs this week -- would coincide amazingly well with our next nature story, which is about the Monarch Migration.
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