After the AUTUMNAL EQUINOX on 9/23, the VERY-hot days have maybe ended. SHOOTING STAR continues our indoor activities with our music and study lessons here at the Nagano Campus, and with our dancing and swimming lessons off-campus.

As we finish up our Unit of Inquiry about plants and other living things, we went to make a close observation of each group’s RADISH planter and BEET planter so we could make a REAL drawing of their condition. Last week we found a few tiny caterpillars eating our radish leaves, and this week we found two BIG “cabbage looper” caterpillars!

Since Coalie, our pet rhinoceros beetle died, we have no class pets, so we decided to keep the 2 caterpillars, feed them cabbage leaves, and watch how they grow… Will they live to become butterflies? In time, we will know…