The conversion of our classroom into a Monarch Butterfly nursery happened by chance. We discovered a caterpillar while taking a nature walk and decided to bring it into the classroom to observe. Since I have raised Monarchs before, I knew exactly what the caterpillar needed to thrive. The students were so excited about our one caterpillar friend that we kept checking the milkweed leaves for more caterpillars and a butterfly unit was born. We studied the life cycle and were privileged to see each stage (egg, caterpillars of various sizes, chrysalis, and even several butterflies emerging during class!) The children complied everything they discovered about Monarchs into this book so they could share it with you. We hope you enjoy our eBook.
If you own an iPad or iPhone, you can download the ePub file and directly drop them into your iTunes library. Once you sync your device with iTunes, you are able to read our butterfly book.
If you are reading this post on your iPad, simply click on the ePub link and choose to open in iBook.
Please leave us a comment where you are from and maybe other interesting facts about Monarch butterflies for us to learn.
4 comments
Comment by Morah Liat on October 31, 2011 at 8:50 pm
I am so glad that Daisy told me about your ebook about butterflies. I learned so much about the life of a butterfly. I mostly enjoyed your illustrations.
Comment by Miss Trask on November 2, 2011 at 4:24 am
Dear class
I read your book about the monarch butterfly. I am amazed by all that you have learned. Fantastic work, I am going to share it with my class, they are Year 6 to 8. I think they will be very impressed.
I live in New Zealand, we have the Monarch butterfly here too, and some develop on a plant in our school grounds. The plant is called the Swan plant, because it has seed pods shaped a little like a swan. We have a problem here, because a wasp that was introduced into our country, preys on the caterpillar and so Monarchs are endangered by it. My next door neighbours have like a monarch nursery where they watch and care for them, and try to keep the wasps from getting them.
I learned many interesting facts from your ebook, thank you.
Miss Trask
New Zealand
PS I love the iPad, and I can see from your work you do too.
Comment by stephanie.teitelbaum on November 2, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I really loved reading your butterfly book. I was so impressed with your illustrations. The book was so informative! You all should be very proud!
Comment by Jennie on November 6, 2011 at 9:08 pm
I really enjoyed reading your Butterfly Book. I learned a lot from your book – the facts you shared were very interesting and the illustrations were lovely. Great work!