Week 10 Term1 2008

This week we wandered around our school grounds to see if we had any plants or flowers that would attract butterflies into our school grounds. While we were very happy to find a hibiscus plant, we found that our school grounds had the most beautiful trees BUT very few flowers

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Later we discussed what we think we should do about it. Grace thought we should plant some seeds and grow some flowers. Charlotte thought we should buy some plants from the garden centre and plant them in a pot. Tony thought we should plant some more hibiscus plants. Harrison shared that to grow flowers or plants we need sun, and rain Grace added and soil. Next week we are going to take this investigation further and find out what and who we have to contact to undertake planting in our school grounds.



Also this week class members brought in some interesting things to share – Kaiyu brought in wetas he'd found in his parden, another class member brought in a leaf eaten by something. She was sure a caterpillar had been munching the leaf but wasn’t able to find it anywhere.

Week 9 Term 1 2008

This week we have explored the life cycle of the butterfly. We have watched a video clip of a caterpillar emerging from its egg case from the monarch butterfly site. It was so amazing we watched it over and over again – inviting rooms 2 and 3 to join us.



From the same website we looked at a power point put together by the ‘butterfly lady’. We learnt how to tell a difference between a female and male monarch butterfly as well as what plants monarch butterflies liked to get nectar from. One of these flowers is the hibiscus. The next day one of the class members brought in a hibiscus flower to show us.




We have also used the kidpix computer programme to draw ladybugs

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At the end of the week we used props and costumes to retell the lifecycle of the butterfly. Oh the fun we had. We videoed each section and hope to put it together as a little video.

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