The New Monarch Butterfly

The pupa.

Pin-pin.

Set free!

Dannielle & Jacob T.M brought a pupa into School & surprised the class. We hung it on a wall in between 2 pins so that's why we named it pinpin. We waited about 2 weeks. We saw it go from green to black to white. When it was black it was transparent. The next day when we were at the libary it broke free!!!! The butterfly was clinging to the wall. We were so happy. It was bigger than we expected. It was beautiful. We discovered it was a male because it had spots on the insides of it's wings. Some of us were so upset when we set him free because we didn't want him to go. Pin-pin wasn't a very good flyer at first. But eventually he figured it out and flew up to a tree. By Dannielle & Shanan (edited by Rm 16)