Thank you all for the great turn out tonight for your child!  It is always one of my favorite visits.

Here are a few pictures from today…

Math-Making Patterns with Pattern Blocks

SCIENCE-Our chrysalis hatched in the wee hours of the morning!  We have a Monarch Butterfly!  We named her “Maya.”  To say the kids were excited is an understatement—oh my goodness!!  Happy Birthday Maya 🙂

Maya was very quiet and tired from her work in hatching.  By the afternoon she had gained some strength and left her stick for some wing stretching and strengthening.  By 24 hours after hatching she will be very hungry so I gave her an orange slice and watermelon wedge.

Maya has to make a very long journey to Mexico City, Mexico, and then back up to Houston, Texas area to lay her eggs.  so, we will release her this afternoon so she can begin her flight.  She will live for 9 months, she’s the super-mom.  After she lays her eggs and they hatch, her daughters will fly to Oklahoma where eggs will be laid and her daughters will live for only 3 months.  Then the granddaughters will lay eggs, hatch, and fly north, lay eggs, hatch and great-granddaughters will fly on to Michigan, living only 3 months.  So you see, Maya is really the “Super-Mom!”

We will miss her but, hopefully, our “Clara, the Caterpillar” will spin her chrysalis by next week and…!!!