Over the last eight weeks we have seen so many different changes on our Swan plant. At first there were some tiny little eggs hidden under the leaves.
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| searching for eggs |
Then we found little baby caterpillars crawling along the leaves.
After only a few days these small caterpillars began to grow and grow. They munched all day on the leaves and became fatter and fatter.
They grew so fat and so big until they were ready to stop and change again.
They attached themselves to a stem and curled up.
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| Next they began to shed their skin and wriggle into a green cocoon. |
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| After two weeks things changed again |
beautiful Monarch butterfly.
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| We tagged the butterflies for the New Zealand Monarch Butterfly Trust! We want to track how far tagged butterflies can fly and where they go! |
4 comments:
Great photos. Hettie and I loved reading this post.
Lisa Allen
Dear Room 6
I have really enjoyed learning along with you about the life cycle of the butterfly. It has been incredible to see how a tiny butterfly egg changes so quickly into a caterpillar and then into a beautiful butterfly. I think it is quite amazing that a creature so tiny can go through such a big change. You have all been wonderful at caring for the many caterpillars that have transformed into butterflies over the past few weeks in our classroom.
From Howie
Wow, you did so well to capture each moment on camera - you must've been paying close attention to all the stages. What a wonderful learning experience for you all.
From George's Mum.
"Room 6 has been exploring lots of caterpillars and it has been really exciting" said Lucy
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