Here are the latest photos of our two caterpillars munching away today. Our first hatched! Our second addition!
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Our caterpillar has grown slightly and is still munching away on the milkweed leaves. Mr Dowling lent us a class set of magnifying glasses from Heathcote High School so we can all keep a close eye on our caterpillar's development at any time of the day! Today's photos of our caterpillar. Some video action! Looks like our caterpillar was having a rest!
While we watch our caterpillar munch away on some milkweed leaves, we made some cute caterpillars out of pipe cleaners. We wound our pipe cleaners around a pencil to make the body segments and then threaded the segments onto a longer pipe cleaner that also formed the feelers. There was a rule to follow though - we had to create a three pattern for our caterpillar's body using three different colours. Please take a look.
Rosella's Cute Caterpillars from Sue Dowling on Vimeo. Great excitement in Rosella today when we saw how much our caterpillar is growing. It is about 6mm long now. Looking at it first thing this morning we could see that it had shed its skin. This will happen five times over the next couple of weeks. The caterpillar will eat the skin (this is normal) before it keeps munching away on the green leaf. Caterpillars keep on eating at this larva stage, so that's why they are called 'eating machines'!
Our caterpillar is an eating machine and growing quickly! Super excitement in Rosella this morning! We arrived at school to find a caterpillar had hatched from the egg and it was tiny! We think it grew a little bit during the day; it must be the yummy leaf it is eating. We think it will be a very hungry caterpillar!
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About UsRosella is a class of 17 happy and enthusiastic children excited to be in Kindergarten at Helensburgh PS in 2017. Our teachers are Mrs Jan Fuller (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs Sue Dowling (Thursday and Friday) Our school is in NSW, Australia. Please feed Jig an apple and spray him clean if he rolls in the mud!
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