Last week, one of the students in our class told us that a Monarch Butterfly had hatched in her house. There was a lot of excitement in Whio Rata and we wanted to find out more about Monarch Butterflies.
Learn
We wrote down our questions and wonderings about Monarach Butterflies and then we carried out some research. We have been focussing on Poetry in our Writing so we decided to write poems about Monarch Butterflies and include some of the elements that we have been learning about. Finally, we have just started to learn more about sketching for Visual Art this term so we wanted to include a realistic drawing of a Monarch Butterfly. We were able to use our Chromebooks to carry out some research and to help us to find real life drawings on Monarch Butterflies.
Create
Everyone wrote a poem and drew a picture of a Monarch Butterfly.
Share
We decided to share our work on the class blog so that everyone could see what we have been doing.
A Chrysalis in Whio Rata: On Friday we were luck to have our own chrysalis in Whio Rata and we saw a Monarch Butterfly hatching! This was an amazing experience and we can’t wait to learn more about butterflies.
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