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As Georgia Acevedo, a demonstration teacher at the University of Hawaii's Manoa Children's Center, walked with a small group of two and young threes to the trash can to throw away some big sticks they had found on the ground in the yard, they saw a caterpillar crawling up the side of the can. When she asked the children if this was where the caterpillar belonged and they responded no, she lifted the caterpillar on a stick and took it to show the other children. Georgia said, "They were all very excited about it and wanted to take it back with us. Max's mother volunteered to get a branch off the crown flower bush and carry it back on the top of Max's baby brother Leo's stroller."Back at Poni Room, we put the branch on a plastic bug box. There was much observation and talk about our caterpillar that we had rescued. The children showed it to their parents. We watched it eat and eat, just like The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Then one morning before rest time, it was hanging from a leaf in the shape of a J. When we observed again after nap time, it was already in the ...