Friday, May 23, 2008

Monarch Butterfly Discovery


  Today we found a Monarch butterfly in the playground.  We saw that it was tagged with a sticker that has a web address on it - www.mb.org.nz.  That reminded us of when we went to Te Puna Quarry Park earlier this year where they were tagging butterflies.  We followed the link to the website and reported our sighting to the Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust.  On this site we found a video of a "Munching and Dancing Caterpillar".



Last week Briearnah brought a cocoon into school.  While we were in assembly it came out and we looked after it until it could fly away.  It was very exciting.  We are also working on some butterfly art, so it has been a butterfly crazy time around here recently.