A few weeks ago, Mrs. Bezaire brought in this stick with a cocoon on it.
It rattled when we shook it and looked old and dried out.
After examining it with magnifying glasses we left it on the window ledge.
A few days ago I was moving furniture and noticed a giant moth on the back of the toy kitchen. The children were all listening to a story on the carpet but as soon as they saw me trying to 'catch' it in a container they were interested in what was going on. We managed to get it into a container and someone noticed the cocoon had a hole in it. (The hole was just tiny, the photo below shows what it looked like after we cracked it open to see what the rattling sound was).
Everyone thought of a name for our moth.
This all happened right at the end of the day and we were worried
the moth might not survive in the classroom all night so we took a walk
to the yard and found a good tree for the moth.
A lot of children noticed the two black spots on the wings.
We talked about this a few months ago when we were
talking about ways animals protect themselves. They discovered that
butterflies and moths have these spots that look like eyes to trick predators into
thinking they are a bigger animal so they don't get eaten.
We decided to make our own butterflies or moths using paint.
We painted half a butterfly and folded the paper so
that the wings were the same on both sides.
"It's symmetrical!"
"I'm making a robot. It will be symmetrical too because
I am only painting half a robot."
"Cool!"
