Sunday, February 14, 2010

Today is The Day!



Yay! I marry myself today! It's Valentines Day~AND The Lunar New Year!!!! The Year of the Tiger.

A Special Valentine
If Love Could be tied in little bouquets, then you would have corsages the rest of your days...You Couldn't tell the corsages apart because they would be tied to the strings of my heart.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Bob the Caterpillar Cocooned!


Our Bob in his cocoon on February 11, 2010

what Bob looked like last week...

"Wouldn’t it be fun to catch a Woolly Bear caterpillar and keep it alive in a jar, feed it everyday as it fattens and watch it? The caterpillar will hibernate through the cold part of winter. In the spring you can feed it again, watch it spin a cocoon of silk and hair. One week later it will “hatch” and the moth will emerge. Then you can set your Tiger moth free outside.Read more at Suite101: Woolly Bear Hunting: Caterpillar of Isabella Tiger Moth "

Our Wooly Bear Story: On January 21, 2010, it was a typical Western Kentucky day in that the weather had shifted from winter to what felt like spring. It was rainy, warm, balmy even. On this day, I found "Bob", our class room caterpillar. I am 99% sure that Bob was a Wooly Bear Caterpillar which predicts a hard winter, which it is...

Bob was found in the spring of our hard winter here...quite odd, indeed, no? But I think it is a gift of love from nature for our classroom.

And 21 days later, Bob cocooned!

We think Bob will turn into a Tiger Moth...But we are not quite sure. We will see in a???.....(still waiting March 11, 2010)