Week 3
has come and gone!
On
Monday we had four little visitors arrive in the Mead Room.
There
were two little stripy caterpillars, and one big one – black, white and yellow
stripes….. and one beautiful jade green chrysalis;
Spencer
– a butterfly will come out of that.
By the
end of the day another caterpillar had inched its way to the top of the
enclosure, spun a tiny bit of silk and attached itself upside down. Soon it had changed its shape until it looked
like the letter J. Then we noticed it
had changed again! Our caterpillar had
changed into a chrysalis!
Ned –
the caterpillar was hanging upside down like a bat!
By the
end of the week our two little caterpillars weren’t so little anymore and their
food had almost gone completely.
Ned –
they ate all the leaves.
Will –
they’re growing
Christopher
– the little caterpillars are growing.
Wilbur
– I don’t know why they’re stripy.. they like to eat, chomp, chomp, chomp.
Kian –
they crawl on the ground, they get big and big and giant.
We can
hardly wait until we see the butterflies emerge from their chrysalis!
We
investigated other examples of change through the week aswell:
Colour Mixing with paint
Lola –
the blue and the yellow can change to green!
Facial Expressions
We had
a lot of fun and much laughter when we transformed our expressions to represent
surprised, cranky, happy and sad.
Have a
great weekend!
