Ms. Rontey, Mr. Bourquard, Ms. Healy and Ms. Peter-Hoen’s third graders completed their life cycles study at the end of May with the release of Painted Lady Butterflies!

During their life cycle study, the Mountaineers studied the plant and animal life cycles observing their similar characteristics (birth, growth, reproduction, death).

The third graders used their unit study as they observed the butterflies daily from larvae to chrysalis and then finally as grown Painted Lady Butterflies! The students kept field journals of their observations and were excited to set the butterflies free and observe them in nature on release day.

BCSD Community, you may notice and enjoy the increase to the butterfly population around the school’s neighborhood these days thanks to the 3rd grade Lepidopterists!

Lepidopterology- a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and butterflies.