Reception The Lifecycle of a Butterfly

Date: 16th May 2024 @ 9:47am

Over the last few weeks the children in Reception have been observing our classroom caterpillars grow and change.  We have been learning about the different stages in the lifecycle including; the butterfly laying an egg on a leaf, the caterpillar hatching a eating lots of food, the caterpillar making a chrysalis and finally transorming into a butterfly.  The children have sequenced the lifecycle and written sentences about what is happening.  The children were meserised when eight beautiful butterflies emeged from the chrysalis.

"The caterpillar hatches out of an egg" Summer S

"It eats leave and vegetables and grows bigger" Neveah

"It's called a larvae" Sid

""It sheds it skin when it gets bigger" Levi

"It makes a cucoon, so it can grow its wings inside" Niko

"The butterfly comes out of the cucoon" Thomas