This term the children in primary 2 have been learning all about animals and their habitats.  Over the past 30 days we have been closely monitoring our very own ladybirds.  We made observations as they changed from larvae to pupae and from pupae to adult ladybirds.

Once the adult ladybirds had hatched we released them into our beautiful ladybird garden.  We made sure that we filled the ladybird garden with some of their favourite plants which were sure to attract their favourite meal; green fly!  We also provided them with shelter and painted some ladybird pebbles so that they had some friendly faces to make them feel welcome!  Did you know that roses, geraniums and nasturtiums will attract ladybirds to your garden?

However, we had a huge surprise today when one of ladybirds popped back into our classroom!  Luckily one of our children spotted it and we were able to rescue the ladybird by putting it safely back in the ladybird garden!