Our children are currently very engaged in the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly. We have been bringing caterpillars and swan plant branches for the caterpillars to eat inside every day and we are keeping them in our science area in a perspex animal house. We have also looked on You Tube to view the life cycle so we can see how the caterpillar turns into a chrysalis and how the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis because we can't always be there when it happens in real life. (Although some of us did get to see the caterpillar to chrysalis change on Monday afternoon. Weren't we lucky!)
Our morning children went to Butterfly Creek on Friday (20th February) to build on and extend this interest area. Unfortunately, it was a VERY wet day! The bus trip took a long time both ways because the traffic was very bad, but once we got there we had a great time. We went into the barn and saw and petted some of the animals and we saw fish in the aquarium area, spiders and other insects in an insect area and we just loved the butterflies. When we came out of the Butterfly House we were really lucky because the rain stopped long enough to go for a train ride before we had our lunch.
