Let Our Learning Soar with the Butterflies

Funded Feb 2, 2009

  I would like to take this opportunity to thank you once again for allowing my students to learn first hand about the butterfly life cycle.  Since the first day I brought the caterpillars, excitement filled the air.  As soon as I opened up the door every single morning, students eagerly came in to check on the caterpillars.  Their learning was not limited to a single viewing of a textbook page or a completion of a worksheet, but rather to a whole process that evolved and improved as the days went by.     What was really exciting was hearing the students use words like "proboscis", "pupa", "larva", etc. while discussing their observations with their parents and friends from other classrooms.  Again, I cannot thank you enough for making this project possible and letting our learning soar without limits. ”

With gratitude,

Ms. S. Acosta