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Trinity Smith and Sydnee Lloyd get a close up look at one of the Painted Ladies. Kathy Johnson photo

Published on June 27, 2012; Published on June 27, 2012

Clarks Harbour class raised painted ladies from caterpillars

Topics :: Harbour Elementary School , Painted Ladies , Ontario

By Kathy Johnson

There were butterfly kisses at the Clark’s Harbour Elementary School on June 19 when students from Grades 1 to 3 set free the Painted Ladies they had raised from the caterpillar stage.

“They really enjoy this activity,” said Grade 2/3 teacher Ruth Thomas as students joyfully followed the just released butterflies around the schoolyard. “They get a lot out of it.”

The butterfly supply arrived from Ontario four weeks ago as very tiny caterpillars, said Thomas. Kept in a netted butterfly cage it took one week for each life stage of the caterpillar to butterfly metamorphous.

Students in Meredith Nickerson Ross’s Grade 1/2 class also took part in the project, which was incorporated living things science curriculum for all three grade levels.

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