Our Monarch Butterfly!

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Yesterday our last Monarch butterfly came out of the chrysalis. We were so delighted as it came out when we were in our classroom at reading time and we could see it all happening. Overnight it was drying out its wings and developing its proboscis and today it began to fly a little bit around our classroom. We gave it flowers and some water. This afternoon we were lucky to then have it tagged with number 500 by local scientist Stan who showed us what to do. He carefully held the butterfly wings together and asked Mrs Ryan to use a toothpick to pick the special sticker up and place it gently on the butterfly's lower wing. The details of our special tagged male butterfly will now go to the Butterfly Trust who will then track its migration. We wonder how far he will fly - Lower Hutt, perhaps Auckland or maybe even South America. We are going to have a practice at tagging our own pretend butterfly with a special number.







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