Flutter by these

Butterfly Facts!

 

 
 

 

Welcome to a website dedicated to the life cycle of the butterfly!

 

* After you are finished, have some fun at the BUTTERFLY ILLUSIONS website!



 Activity #1:   Read the poem titled Caterpillar by Lillian Vabada
 

                                                            Caterpillar 

                                      Fuzzy, wuzzy, creepy crawly 
                                              Caterpillar funny
                                           You will be a butterfly 
                                          When the days are sunny.

                                   Wiggling, flinging, dancing, springing
                                               Butterfly so yellow,
                                          You were once a caterpillar,
                                             Wriggly, wiggly, fellow.

                                                 by Lillian Vabada 
 

Now write down all rhyming word pairs from the poem on your webquest page.

       1. 

       2. 

       3.

       4.

       5.

       6.

 

 
Activity #2:   Create an acrostic poem using the beginning  letters of the words butterfly.

       B

       U

       T

       T

       E

       R

       F

       L

       Y

Activity #3:  Using the letters only once in the word METAMORPHOSIS, 
      how many words can you make? 
 

List your words in the table located on your webquest activity sheet. 

l.	13.
2.	14.
3.	15.
4.	16.
5.	17.
6.	16.
7.	17.
8.	18.
9.	19.
10.	20.
11.	21.
12.	22.

 
 
FUN FACTS

Did You Know?

l.  Caterpillars change into butterflies. 
2. The change is called metamorphosis.
3. Caterpillars grow out of their skin, molting. 
4. Caterpillars will molt four or five times. 
5. The last time a caterpillar molts, it grows a hard shell - pupa. 
6. Caterpillars stay inside the pupa for one week. 
7. A butterfly can fly within two hours.
8. All butterflies have three pairs of legs. 

BUTTERFLY ILLUSIONS
Which ones of these images is a close up of a butterfly? 

A.	B.	C.

Click here to go to the site to check your answer

THE END

Facts from a lesson created by Cara Wyko:
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/298LifeCycles.htm

 
  Vocabulary information taken from http://www.scholastic.com/inschool/instructor/curriculum/science/science2.htm