Fourth Graders Harvest 3 Sisters Garden

A Monarch Video

Here is what you missed!  Not our monarch...not taken by me.
Look at the previous post to see our "home-grown" monarchs...

Monarch changing in real time

Monarchs Are Changing

Fifth Graders:  Monarchs have begun to form their chrysalises on September 23, 2012...Alas...it is a Sunday.  Here is a picture.  Notice the silk.

And another picture...

And a video....

http://www.schooltube.com/video/ceaac62fd16d42c58a42/

Another Chrysalis on the fence near the Pollinator Gardens

What kind of butterfly will emerge?

Second graders explore nature objects...

Food Chain

Students released lady bugs hoping they would devour the aphids devouring the milkweed that we want for the monarch caterpillars to devour....

Squash Blossom by Alex

Lots of veggies in the BNS gardens this year...Will this blossom bear fruit?

If you plant it they will come...

Monarch butterflies flocked to the milkweed in the pollinator section of the BNS garden.

And so did bees and a praying mantis and of course, BNS students.

Here is a snapshot of a chrysalis taken by Mariella today, September 7, 2012.

and...a student with the praying mantis taken by Johanna...