caterpillars

We have been reading about Monarch caterpillars. In this story a boy and his koro watch as a two Monarch caterpillar eggs transform into butterflies. The author wrote this story all about life cycles.  The life cycle of a butterfly and koro, his son that died and his moko. The life cycle of a butterfly starts as an egg, the egg hatches into caterpillar, then it eat and eats until it is really fat, then it goes into a chrysalis and turn’s into a butterfly. And as for a human he or she starts as a baby, then it is a child, then a teenager and then an adult. at the beginning it is all about protecting the young then when it grows up we have to let it go.