I can’t wait to find out what kind of butterflies Matilda is going to have when her caterpillars change. I thought I would just remind everyone how our learning links up.  We can actually use butterflies in lots of areas of learning. Here are a few:

Lily researched and made a diagram of a butterfly life cycle at home:

Well done, Lily.

We learned about blue morpho butterflies through our Amazon topic and saw some on our Amazonia trip. This photo shows the underside.

This is the other side of the blue morpho butterfly:

People observed butterflies and drew them in Art. Chloe, Neive and Lucy drew these blue morpho butterflies:

We used butterflies to explore symmetry in maths.     

 

Now we can look out for butterflies here in Scotland and research the different ones we see.