Butterfly emerging

We were lucky enough to see one of our pet caterpillars emerge as a butterly. It took almost five hours for it to fly away to freedom. We found out that butterflies live for six months. We were not allowed to touch it because it was pumping blood into its wings and we didn't want to damage them.

Butterflies

This term we have been learning about the life cycle of a Monarch butterfly. We made cartoons using Tuxpaint to show the four stages.We made an i-movie to share our learning at assembly. We had three pet caterpillars called Munch, Bunch and Crunch. It was exciting to see the caterpillars change into a chrysalises and emerge as a butterflies. We went to Auckland Museum to be entomologists for a day.