BY SES

Our whole class got a caterpillar. Our caterpillar started out as eggs. Then the stage was in the larvae stage. Then it molted its exoskeleton and head cap.Then it is a caterpillar. Then it is in the chrysalis. Then it is a butterfly. His name is Sydney. I am so sad because he is a butterfly. the pro legs are to climb. The true legs are to dig. The spiracles are so that you can breath. The bristles are so the sun doesn't re fled off and so birds don't eat him. Some of the chrysalis have become a butterfly. I forgot to add something before the chrysalis before it is in a j shape.  It is the best thing that you had ever had. I wish that they could live fever. I forgot to say what they eat. They eat a type of food that is called mallow. Almost all of the chrysalis have emerged. I love the butterfly!!!!!! I am so glad that i got them. I want to watch the butterfly fly.
I am so happy that they are a butterfly!!!!!!!! The butterfly is called the painted lady. I LOVE THEM!!!!!

By: ASD

   My caterpillar is almost a chrysallis. It is in a J shape . Its starting to build its chrysillas. The chrysillas looks like a shiny silver goo.Now it is half way done! It is fully in a chrysalis now! 2 more days until it emerges! It has a crack in it! It is a butterfly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it!!!!!I am so happy!!!!!!

By: MCP

Mrs. Furmun brot us caterpillars in a cup and  Mrs. Furman  cauld  numbers to gat are caterpillar to are tabel. Mis furman got us a book to right words on. It took long for the catepillar to molt. My butterfly has a name it is Bob. I am excited when I saw three butterflies. My caterpillar turned into a chrysalis on May 17 2012. The first day of our life cycle of the caterpillar the caterpillars were very tiny then in about 2 weeks later it was large. Then it turned into a J shape and got ready to go into a chrysalis.

By: JFV

Mrs. Furman starded gaving us our caterpillar. I was so happy to see my caterpillar. My caterpillar was named boby. It was so tiny. It ate mallow. It molt for the last time. Then it wated for 6 hours. Then it became a beautiful butterfy. Then the butterfly emerge I love the colorful details that the butterfly has. When it was a caterpillar it had truelegs.

By:JAW

When our caterpillars came they were in the larvae stage. When my caterpillar molted he got bigger. When my caterpillar molted you could see his head cap. His head cap is shiny. You could also see his exoskeleton. His exoskeleton is fuzzy. After a week my caterpillar was huge. My caterpillars name is John. Now my caterpillar is gigantic. My caterpillar is in a j shape now getting ready to make a chrysalis. After a chrysalis my caterpillar will turn into a butterfly. When it turns into a butterfly it will have to wait a while until it can fly.
Now my caterpillar is in a chrysalis. He is going to be a butterfly soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is 3 butterflies right now. Only 2 butterflies can fly because 1 just emerged from his chrysalis. The butterflies eat from a sponge with sugar and water in it. Our butterflies are painted ladies. I am so happy our caterpillers turned into butterflies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today one of the butterflies escaped from the little butterfly house and Mrs.Furman had to pick it up and put it back in the little butterfly house. Not all of the butterflies have emerged from their chrysalises but they will soon.

by MVD

My caterpillar name is pac man. He will be flying everywhere. He is cool because he was the first to trn to a chrysalis. He is a butterfly now. Now he eat food. His wings color is cool.

By: IV

We fist got the caterpillers in the larva part. The larva ate itile it was fully grown. Then it's a great big fat catepiller. After that it molts and terns to a chrysalis. After a fue days the chrysalis will turn to a beautiful butterfly. After that the type of butterfly called a painted lady. Mrs.Furman put shuger and water mix together. They look like a monork.

By: AMH

My caterpillar is in a chrysalis! Mrs. Furman put sugar and water mixture into a sponge. Today I saw a butterfly and a chrysalis that a butterfly had already emerged from. There was meconium on the paper. I saw three butterflies and three head capsules. It was shiny on a chrysalis dangling from some clear silk. The butterflies are not a caterpillar anymore. We have painted ladies. They have beautiful colors. They will not eat anymore mallow because they are butterflies and butterflies drink nectar. I think mine will be one of the last to emerge to be a butterfly because it was the last to be in a j shape and a chrysalis.

by DOT

My Caterpillar came and he looked tiny and I could not even see it. My caterpillar's name was Magic. I called him magic because it's a cool name for a caterpillar. The more he eats mallow plant's the fater he will get. He will become a cristleles so that he can turn into a butterfly. Then we can let them go free and watch them fly. When they fly by themselves they will lay baby butterflies and the eggs will start the lifecycle all over again.

By:EMP

Yesterday(May 22 2012) our first 2 butterflies emerged out of there chrysalis.We got to see the 2 butterflies before recces.Todat more and more butterflies are emerging.Mrs.Furman put a spunge in the butterfly cage so they can have some food.The spunge has suger on it.The butterflies have lots of diffrent types of colers.

By: JDH

My caterpillar has finaly tured into a cryisalis. I do not know If my caterpillar is a butterfly yet. I think it might be a buterfly because I think it has been in a cryisilis for at lest 10 days. There is only one more crysilis left so I think that mine is a butterfly. But to have died all ready but I know that one of those si not mine.

by EBR

I have a caterpillar. I look to see the exoskeleton. Mrs. Furman talked about caterpillar how they eats.My caterpillar eats mallow plant.My caterpillar have proleg and true legs.If a bird try to eat my caterpillar it eating the bristles.I love caterpillar.You can see the eys.My caterpillar is a chrysaulis.I ilke bristles because it look good on the caterpillar.

By: DJB

The chrysalis appeared on 5/10/12. On May 8 it was in a j shape. Then today on the 23rd  3 came out of their chrysalis. Some are boys and some are girls too.They are orange and black and some are white and mixed dots. They have been in a net. It looks like a blue top and a blue bottom and white around.

By NPM

 My caterpillar was really tiny when I got him. He eats the mallow plant. My caterpillars name is Billy Bob. He is really big now. My caterpillar is in my chysallis. The caterpillar gets air from ther spiricles.They are little hols.They are black dots.We both eat food. We both need air.

By DJB

A caterpillar likes to eat mallow it is a type of  flowers.They molt acuple of times they wigle out of it like we wigle out of  our clowes.Caterpillars have prowelegs and true legs the prowe legs are for sticking to stuff and the true legs are another set of legs.They make a chrysalis to beform in to a butterfly it is a boy if  it has a circle on its wings if its a girl it will not have a circle on its wing.It hangs from a buton it mite fall if it gets wobled to much.Its name is bob he is awesome or Amber she is awesome.They molt after they molt a ball will  beformed it is called the exoskelaton.

By GMC

It was so cool to see the butterflys emerge. My friend Ellen her buterfly is going to emerge soon!!!!!!!!!! Two of the butterflys all redy emerge. I saw one of the butterflys emerge. I t was so cool to see the butterfly emerge!!!!!!! I had fun takeing care of my caterpillar. It was sad to give it to Mrs.Furman. The butterflys look so pretty!!!!! It is so cool to see the butterflys!!!

By PPJ

We have caterpillars at our classroom. The first day we got them they were little. We gave the caterpillar same food it was molt. On the weeks it grow biger. When we came back to school. They were more biger because it grow on the weeks. And the food made the caterpillar grow biger to. Then my caterpillar will be a chrysallis. I think my caterpillar will be a butterfly because it turn to a chrysallis.

By S.V.G

My caterpillar eats  mallow a lot. The caterpillars name is Lilly. She was super cute because she was so tiny. She used her prolegs to stick to the cup so she could climb. There was a lot of frass in the cup. Frass is the caterpillars waste. Lilly molted so that she could get rid of her exoskeleton. She got rid of it so that she could get bigger.

By: LAF

My caterpillar started out as a larvae egg. Today my caterpillar is a chrysalis and I'll tell you the story about how it started. The caterpillar started out as a little baby and it ate only mallow. Then it molted off it's exoskeleton and it's head capsule it's exoskeleton is small and fluffy and the head capsule is small and shiny like a little helmet. By the next day it was huge about as big as an eraser that's not on a pencil when Jake said the caterpillar was huge I thought it would be as big as a pencil! Then it went into a J shape and that is a sighn of a chrysallis and Mrs Furman said that mine was in a perfect J and I was suprised! Guess what my caterpillar is a chrysalisnow I knew that it was going to be in a chrysalis becuase I put it in the work out room. In about six days it will finally turn into a beautiful butterfly.

By GMC

My caterpillar was so tiny when I got it. The first thing I did was name my caterpillar. I named  the caterpillar Ellen because I love the name Ellen. The caterpillar was so cute that I was looking at it so but Mrs.Furman said that if you look at at like math she will take it away and I will have to put it in my cubby. It was so much fun to take care of my caterpillar!

By A.M.H

When my caterpillar came I named it Clodeen Wolf J.r.She is in a J shape. I hope when I come bake sheis in a chrysallis.I will have to name her Cloodeen Butterfly.Today is her birthday5/16/12!I love my caterpillar Cloodeen Wolf J.r. She will be a butterfly soon. You are the BEEST ! She was so small. She is now BIG.

By:EMP

 Our caterpillars came in the month of may. I was so excited when we started to see the life cycle of a caterpiller. It started out like a tiny egg then he molted the first time and ate then he molted agai and agian and agian and till he was huge. When the caterpillar molts it gets bigger and bigger. my caterpiller has been thruow the chrysalis stage. I new it was going to turn into a chrysalis soon because it was in a J shape. It takes about 1 hour to turn into a chysalis. When  I went into the room I took a peek at my caterpillar and the next thing I new it wasn't a caterpillar it was chrysalis. I was very surpised i thought it was going to take a long time. Mrs.Furman took the caterpillar away from me so it could go to the butterfly cage so over night or day it doesn't have to be stuck in the tinny cup. i am very proud of mrs.Furmam my caterpillar  because they help me so much. It's name is Ellen Jr. I know that a chrysalis is for a caterpillar a cacoon is for a moth. When I saw the caterpillers I was so HAPPY!!!!!!!! I think that everyone has a extraordinary caterpillar! I hope you do to! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!