Today, our class learned about the lifecycle of a butterfly. We worked with the lifecycle of a butterfly lesson in the science area and we also watched a video. We learned that a caterpillar that is hatched from an egg is called a larva and it eats and grows until it is ready to make itself a chrysalis. Inside the chrysalis the caterpillar becomes a pupa that starts to go through a metamorphosis. Did you know that metamorphosis means change? When the pupa has completed its metamorphosis a butterfly will emerge from its chrysalis. The children found the fact that a caterpillar eats its eggshell as its first meal after hatching from its egg very funny!
Below is a link to the video our class watched:
