Butterfly Publishing

Children were super excited about this writing topic and many of them found lots of interesting facts about the life cycle of the butterfly.  Great work ALL of Team Maunga and Iti.  Here are a couple of examples of Explain Everythings that were created to publish children's writing this week.  

Andrew                                                                    Tommy

Butterfly Life Cycle

Here is a presentation that Maia and Laylah created following the visit from the Butterfly Lady.

They researched their facts. 

Then decided what to write on each slide.

Next they added their pictures (and took pictures), to match what they were saying on each slide.

Finally they added their voices to each slide to make it more interesting.

They thought it was a shame that they didn't do this in the first term when there were so many caterpillars chrysalis and butterfly around our classroom.

Butterfly Lady

We were so lucky to have a special visit from the Butterfly Lady today! We loved her hat and her bright butterfly top!
We learnt all about the different stages of the life cycle. We didn't know the first thing a caterpillar eats is the egg it hatches from. We also learnt about how the caterpillar makes the shape of the letter J when it begins to change into a chrysalis.
Mrs Stevenson dressed up into a butterfly outfit. She had 6 legs, 2 long antenna, many eyes, beautiful wings, and a long tongue called a proboscis.

Can you remember all the different stages of the life cycle?