Thursday 17 June 2021

Butterflies in nursery

 Continuing from our topic all about animals, this week we have been reading the story 'The Hungry Caterpillar'. Related to the story we were lucky enough to have 5 chrysalis that were ready to change. One morning we came in and the butterflies had started to come out. By the end of the morning all 5 had made it out and were flying around their net. We carefully gave them some sugar water and a grape and some orange for them to drink. We continued during the week to read other stories about butterflies including information books which we all found very interesting. Then on Wednesday before the rain came we set the butterflies free. In the morning we walked up to the forest to release them and in the afternoon we went round near the trees next to the nursery building. It was amazing to see them fly away and one stayed for a long time having a drink on the grape so we could see how beautiful the butterfly really was. It was an amazing experience and the nursery children have really been enthusiastic when talking about them and thrilled to watch the butterflies fly away. 












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