We celebrate the earth every day as part of our TK curriculum…. soil, worms, caterpillars, butterflies, and plants. Please take a closer look…
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Worm Composting – We compost our food scraps and feed our worms. The worms make rich, dark compost for our fall and spring planting.
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- Newspaper bedding for our worms
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- Water for our worms
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- Feeding our worms
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- Caring for our worms
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- Warm bedding for our worms
Gardening – We planted lettuce, beets, and carrots in the fall. We just planted our flower seeds last week….they are now starting to grow!
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- Fall Plants -Lettuce, Beets, and Carrots
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- Watering our flower plants
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- Look at that! Wow! Our first plant…
Flowers – Taking a Closer Look
Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly – The Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly lays its eggs on the tender leaves and stems of the California Pipevine plant. The eggs hatch into caterpillars and feed on the pipevine leaves, transforming into a chrysalis through the winter and finally emerging as a Swallowtail Butterfly in the spring.
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- California Pipevine Plant
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- Swallowtail Butterfly Eggs
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- Swallowtail Caterpillars
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- Swallowtail Caterpillars (close up)
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- Swallowtail Butterfly Chrysalis
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- Swallowtail Butterfly
We Made a Swallowtail Butterfly Book
Celebrating the earth with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Trees
