The Assessment and Development Class are enjoying learning all about jungle animals!

The Assessment and Development Class enjoyed learning /j/ sound!

We made jelly and jam sandwiches.

The Language Unit children enjoyed some fruit tasting! We enjoyed the book Handa’s Surprising Day.

Kyle didn’t like the mango!

Neha likes coconut!

Kacper likes melon!

On Tuesday we had five butterflies! All of our caterpillars turned into beautiful butterflies!

On Wednesday we set the butterflies free! We took them into the garden and let them fly free in time for the holiday weekend! Hopefully they enjoy a sunny long weekend….just like us! Keep an eye out for some beautiful butterflies in the garden.

Today we arrived in class and had a look at the butterfly habitat. There was a BIG surprise. We had three butterflies fluttering about! Mrs Johnston managed to get some fruit and we scored the fruit and put it in the habitat so the butterflies had some food. We watched the new butterflies smell the fruit with their antennae, taste with  their feet and unfurl their proboscises to sip the nectar!

After playtime we noticed that we had a new butterfly…….We now have four  beautiful Painted Lady butterflies fluttering in the habitat! Fingers crossed that we have five tomorrow!!

We will make up the butterfly food and feed them everyday until they are ready to fly away!

We have been watching our caterpillars grow and reading the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.  We enjoyed listening to the story on the SMARTBOARD and we have been trying hard to sequence the story.  One day we tried some of the foods that the caterpillar ate. We enjoyed some of the fruit!

We have been looking after our caterpillars. They have enjoyed eating all of the food in the cup and when they got big they climbed to the top of the cup and formed chrysalides. We waited for a few days and moved the chrysalides to the butterfly habitat.

This week we were really excited as a special parcel was delivered to the class! 5 caterpillars have joined us in the class!!

We will be watching the caterpillars eat all the food they have in their special cup and then in 7 to 14 days they will climb to the top of the cup and attach themselves to the paper lid. We are hoping to see them change into beautiful butterflies!

The caterpillars are on our minibeast table and have started crawling about their cup and eating their special food.  We will keep you updated on their progress!

We are all looking forward to returning to the Assessment and Development Class on Tuesday to see if the caterpillars have been eating their food and have grown!

This week in the Assessment and Development Class we have been singing ‘The Ugly Bug Ball’. We used instruments to keep the beat!

We have been working really hard this week!

This week’s learning focus

• the sound /g/
• Three Blind Mice
• ‘Mad About Minibeasts’ story, gym and drama activities
• Looking for Minibeasts with no legs!