Butterfly Release Day 2015
Saying Goodbye to this Year’s Butterflies!
Following on from last year’s very successful butterfly project, Riverbank’s Nursery classes embarked on another round of the project this year.
On a previous post, you can see the children take delivery and look after their caterpillars; watching them enter the chrysalis phase before emerging as beautiful butterflies. This project allows the children to follow the life cycle of these fascinating insects. The children were intrigued to see their crawly, hairy caterpillars change to the butterflies with wings. They took the butterflies into the school courtyard to let them fly off.
In the slideshow above, you can see the butterflies and the different expressions on the children’s faces. From the ‘ I’m not sure about having this on my hand’ to the ‘Oh, my goodness just look at the butterfly on my hand’. This is real life science at work in the nursery!