All About Butterflies

By Mrs. Lausman’s 1st Grade Class

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Table of Contents (Shows what page the chapters are on)

Flight.......3 Body Parts……..4-5

Food…….6 Caterpillars and Chrysalis.......7-8

Life Span…….9 Glossary …………………10 Index …………………….11

Bibliography…………….12

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What is their first fly like?

How do they fly when they are so fragile?

The butterflies pump their wings to get blood inside.

They are actually strong and sturdy. Light weight wings make it easy to fly.

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How are the wings attached?

Their wings are attached at the thorax.

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How many legs do they have?

How do they eat?

6 legs

They have 6 legs. They live outside.

They eat with a proboscis that is like a straw.

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What do they eat and drink?

They eat and drink nectar. It is sweet.

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How do baby caterpillars get born?

Mama butterfly lays an egg on a leaf. It gets big in the egg and munches its way out. Its first meal is the egg shell.

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How does it change in the chrysalis?

What do baby caterpillars look like?

Baby caterpillars are little and green. They’re about as small as a pinky fingernail.

Its skin turns hard around it. It changes into a big gob of goo.

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How long does a butterfly live?

How do they communicate?

A butterfly will live five to ten months. Monarch butterflies live 9 months.

Butterflies communicate by their colors. Their colors tell where their families are.

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Glossary (tells what the dark bold words

mean )

Caterpillar means a baby butterfly.

Chrysalis means the cover a caterpillar puts around itself as it changes to a butterfly.

Goo means green sticky slimy stuff.

Nectar means sweet sticky stuff from a flower.

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Index ( is like the table of contents but it

shows what page the words are on)

Caterpillar – 7, 8, 10

Egg - 7

Fly --3, 9, 10

Wings – 3, 4

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Bibliography (is a list of where we got our information )

• Fowler, Allan. It could still be a butterfly. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1994. Print.

• Howard, Fran. Butterflies. Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Press, 2005. Print.

• Murray, Julie. Butterflies. Edina, Minn.: Abdo Pub. Co., 2011. Print.

• Rustad, Martha E.H. Butterflies. Minneapolis, MN: Bellwether Media, 2008. Print.

• Schuh, Mari C. Butterflies. Mankato, Minn.: Pebble Books, 2003. Print.

• Wallace, Karen. Born to be a butterfly. New York: Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2000. Print.

• Copan, Marissa. "Butterflies." Arapahoe Ridge Library, Thornton. 6

Dec. 2012. Skype. Speech.

• “Butterflys.” PebbleGo. www.pebblego.com. December 16, 2012.

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