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An amazing journey from a tiny egg to a crawling caterpillar, a quiet chrysalis, then a colorful butterfly flying free
المادةالعلوم
المرحلةالصف الثاني الابتدائي
مدة الدرس15 د
أهداف الدرس
Name the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle in order
Understand the meaning of «caterpillar» and «chrysalis»
Observe how a living creature changes shape as it grows
نشاط تطبيقي
Ask your child to draw four circles in a row and, inside each one, draw a stage of the butterfly's life (egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly), connecting them with arrows.
A butterfly goes through four amazing stages in its life. The journey begins when a mother butterfly lays a tiny egg on a plant leaf. After a few days, the egg hatches into a small «caterpillar» (also called a larva).
The caterpillar eats plant leaves hungrily and grows quickly, until it builds itself a hard covering called a «chrysalis» (or pupa). Inside, it stays perfectly still while its body completely transforms.
Finally, a beautiful butterfly with colorful wings emerges from the chrysalis! It waits a little while for its wings to dry, then flies off to find flowers and lay new eggs, starting the cycle all over again.
