I have caterpillars!

Thursday morning
I have caterpillars! They will turn into butterflies.

There are six. At least three will stay alive. And three might die.

They are really really tiny black caterpillars.

Friday morning
They have shedded some skin now and there's a lot more balls of food so they've been eating really good.

The webbing has gotten shorter and there's a little bit of shedded skin in the webbing. There's a little bit of webbing on the other side, too.

They're all a little big longer or a little bit shorter than a half of an inch.

Friday night
The big ones are between 5/8 and 3/4 of an inch, but the little one is only exactly a half of an inch.

They have grown a lot in 12 hours!

We completed a unit about butterflies and moths and now we're raising a batch of six Painted Lady caterpillars. We ordered this kit and they were shipped to us from Carolina Biological Supply Company. Addy had fun tracking their FedEx delivery route on Google Earth from North Carolina to Ohio to our house with stops in between. Unfortunately our camera is broken so we can't track their growth with photos yet.

Sonlight catalog

Two pictures of Addy appear in the 2008 catalog of our curriculum provider, Sonlight. She wants you all to see them.


Caption:
Five-year-old Addy B of Reed City, MI, does Singapore Math with her dolls and shoes. “Sonlight’s Singapore Math really works for us,” writes Addy’s mom Sue. “Addy has started to demonstrate number concepts in her head that apply to everyday living. “Earlybird Math 2B gives a gentle introduction to the concept of subtraction with an example of children removing their shoes. To make the concept more visual, we grabbed some of Addy’s dolls and shoes to practice.” For Addy’s first year of Sonlight, she’s using Core K with all the electives.

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“After reading the story of baby Moses in Sonlight’s Egermeier’s Bible Story Book, my five-year-old daughter Addy wanted to make a basket just as Moses’ mother did,” writes Sue B of Reed City, MI. “I like that Sonlight does the planning work for me so we can spend time using our creativity to fi gure out fun ways to extend our learning. Every morning after breakfast, I open my blue Sonlight binder and know that the day’s lessons are planned out for me. It allows me to concentrate on the children rather than lesson planning.” Addy has studied all Sonlight’s K programs in her first year with Sonlight.