Making a Butterfly GardenStage 4

By Room 3

• This term all the year 1 classes have been learning about butterflies and caterpillars for our inquiry topic.

• Our key question was: How can we make a habitat to attract butterflies to Pakuranga Heights school?

We went for a walk around the school and discovered we needed more plants to

attract butterflies to our school.

Room 3 decided to plant a butterfly garden outside our

room.We will share with you what we did.

What plants do caterpillars like?

• We found out that caterpillars like to eat different kinds of plants.

• Mrs Louisson bought us some swan plants to plant. Caterpillars LOVE swan plants.

Planting Day!

• On Thursday we planted the swan plants in our garden outside.

• Mrs Louisson showed us how to plant them.

Feeding the plants

• First we dug a hole.

• Then we put some plant food in the hole.

• Jake puts the plant food in.

Getting the plants ready

• Elise carefully patted the pot to take the plant out.

• Then she put it in the hole.

Planting the plants

• Bhavika helps to cover the plant with the dirt.

• The plant is safe.

Watering and looking after them

• Luxshana is watering the swan plants in the garden.

Room 3’s Butterfly GardenWe are going to look after our plants everyday and water them.

We can’t wait to see if butterflies will come and lay eggs on the

leaves.