Bye Bye Butterfly!

This week Gracie's class took their field trip for the year to the Nature Park. It's just down the street from the school so they walked there and the boys and I met them on the way there. We enjoyed a picnic lunch and then we walked down to the ponds and watched the ducks. We saw a momma duck with 15 of the most adorable little ducklings. 15! I shoulda snapped a picture. Then they did a little scavenger hunt and they had to find things like a feather, a lady bug, a pine cone, etc. And then it was time to release their butterflies into the wild. They had been raising them in their classroom from caterpillar stage to chrysalis to butterfly and now it was time to let them go. Their teacher let them each have a turn holding at least one before they flew away. With this being the end of the school year I thought it was an appropriate way to end it!

Rex' favorite book is Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
so he was very interested in seeing the butterflies.

The happy campers