Week 6 Term 1 2015

We have some new classmates in Room 8. 

All they do all day is eat and grow!                                                                                           We are really enjoying watching them and learning about their life cycle. 
They are still a few days away from forming a chrysalis.
However they are shedding their skins each time they grow and we managed to get a photograph of the empty skin. It looks cool!

Mrs Finucane found this poem about Caterpillars which describes the metamorphosis or change.

Birth of a Butterfly

A mama butterfly lays all her eggs,

Out pops a caterpillar, crawling on its legs.

The caterpillar first is rather thin,

But then it eats till it bursts through its skin.

After growing nice and big,

The caterpillar climbs on a leaf or twig.

It makes a shell where it hangs inside,

Then the shell cracks, and the parts divide.

Inside the shell, a change was going on,

The form of the caterpillar now is gone.

When the shell opens, what comes out?

A beautiful butterfly fluttering about.

Author Unknown