This week’s science lessons have included several spontaneous wildlife sessions.  Here are photos of a few.

The Black Capped Chickadee

A Young Mantis, I believe Sam called it a Purple Mantis, but I didn’t get close enough to tell and it is rather small.

The adult Parsley Worm, which if all goes as intended will become a Black Swallowtail Butterfly.

Those of you who know me will be glad to learn that I didn’t kill the “yucky” spider.

Here the children observe the Parsley Worm infestation and wonder if there’s enough parsley to feed that many caterpillars.

This is the Black Snake that joined me for my afternoon coffee. I’ll be finding a new spot.

It’s hard to believe that all this happened in just four days this week. Thanks to Mark’s gift of a GREAT camera last winter, we got some wonderful material for the science notebooks.