St. Michael's Pre-K Class Get Their Wings

Students in Mary Coaty and Bernadette Griffin's prekindergarten class made a real transformation at on Monday. Metamorphosis Day, a "revered prekindergarten rite of spring," saw the students dressed up as caterpillars and butterflies.

Metamorphosis Day was the culmination of their classroom study of the caterpillar's journey from fuzzy worm through the chrysalides and cocoon stages to sleek, fluttery butterfly. Wearing butterfly wings they had made in class, it was their turn to learn by doing as they took their hatched newborns outside for a metamorphosis reenactment.

“As I narrated the process the children dramatized the transformation from egg to hungry caterpillars, cocoons, and then butterflies," Griffin said. “Then they flew around sipping nectar, and we let our own butterflies go. . . It is always a very exciting day!”