Discovery Time

We again had another busy week at Discovery Time.  We had helpful helpers in the garden, scientists watching the caterpillars and butterflies, bubbles, birds in the forest and a designer at work with bottle top lids.

Butterfly Feeders

This week in investigations we wanted to learn what butterflies eat and how they can get their food.
We learned that sometimes butterflies need some help to get food. We decided to make some butterfly feeders to hang from the trees.

First we needed to tie the string on to the lids. We then made the strings bright and colourful by threading beads and cut up straws onto them. We know that butterflies like bright colours.

Next week we are going to hang these from the trees in our butterfly garden and put some fruit out for them to eat.

We wonder what fruit they will like?

Te Waka o Matariki - Numbers to 10

Some of us are learning how to recognise the numbers to 10.  We used our interest in caterpillars to find the numbers and order them to 10.  We worked together to find the numbers and then put the caterpillar together individually.