Avon Heritage students release their butterflies
Alison Dietz | The Chronicle-Telegram
AVON — Around 150 third-grade students clamored and pushed toward a table in the yard of Avon Heritage South, vying for the best vantage point to see the stars of Friday’s show: painted lady butterflies.
The butterflies were part of a six-week project for seven of the 13 third-grade classes at the elementary school.
“We raised butterflies in our classroom,” said Zskyler Harden, 8. “A lot of them like to flap around a lot.”
Teachers ordered kits that included five live caterpillars, a cup with peanut butter in it for the caterpillars to eat, a net butterfly habitat, and several butterfly-related activities for the students to do.
Students were able to get to know the caterpillars and watch as they made their cocoons and, after a week, became butterflies. The hatched butterflies were fed fresh fruit and kept in cylindrical mesh habitats for a few more days before they were released.
Each teacher randomly drew students’ names to be one of the lucky few who could hold a butterfly while it warmed up enough to fly away.
Some stayed on the students’ hands for a few seconds, while most flew away as soon as they were removed from their habitats.
The project fit in with state-mandated standards for learning about life cycles and butterflies, but in an interactive manner, said teacher Marcia Frank.
“This is a neat activity for the kids to do instead of just learning from a book,” she said.
Contact Alison Dietz at 329-7128 or adietz@chroniclet.com.
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Filed by Alison Dietz | The Chronicle-Telegram October 13th, 2008 in Local and State. Popularity: 1% |
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