Hi girls and boys! I know you are wondering: where are the pictures from our field trip to the ACUA? Well, Ms. Lenahan was absent-minded and forgot to bring her camera with her to South Carolina! So, I was unable to upload the pictures from our field trip, BUT I did upload more monarch butterfly photos! If you look across the top of the webpage, you will see different ‘tabs’–About Ms. Lenahan, Field Day, Mexico, etc. One of them is titled: Monarch Release Celebration 2009. Click on it to see pictures from this school year’s butterfly release celebration! And please show your parents! It’s always nice to be seen in pictures!

Masiel, Robert, Sleyker and I release a few more monarchs on a warm October afternoon. I wish it would warm up again so I can release the last few we have!

Ms. Lenahan, Mrs. Medina and students are interviewed by Phaidra Laird from TV40.

Everyone looks nervous as we wait to release the monarchs.

Marcus has a monarch ‘friend’ who just doesn’t want to start its migration!

Mrs. Karpinski as ‘Madame Butterfly’! She and her class did a wonderful job caring for and raising monarchs from eggs. Her students sang songs and recited poetry and made the day extra special!

Sweet Destiny and a butterfly!

This is Kaila, Chloe and Karina. Three very sweet girls! As soon as I saw Chloe I had to hold her. What a precious puppy! She wasn’t afraid at all and was so affectionate. I think I want a Chihuahua now…

Emily D. brought in some photos of a caterpillar her father took this summer. This caterpillar sure is strange! It has a green body with black and red spikes and  black horns all over it’s body!

Well, I had a hard time identifying this caterpillar, but I finally found out what it was–a ‘hickory horned devil’. The adult is a regal moth or royal walnut moth.

Click here is some information about this strange critter!

Emily’s photos are much nicer than this one, but I wanted to show you what it looked like!