Welcome back! Hope you had an enjoyable Obon holiday. Back in ISN, it had been a busy week of summer bugs and butterfly fun for Savanna. We watched a video about the monarch butterfly and its amazing life cycle.

Savanna were wonderful Inquirers as we researched about the life cycle of a butterfly. Savanna: How do they grow? What do they eat? We pretended to be eggs waiting to hatch. Then we became very hungry caterpillars who ate a lot of leaves – not ice cream or sausages like the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Next, we curled up in our chrysalis and did lots of growing – wings, legs, feelers. Finally, we popped out and flew about as butterflies!

We reviewed our learning with cut out pictures of the butterfly’s life cycle and tried reading the words – egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly. Well done, Savanna you are Knowledgeable! Savanna explored the concept of symmetry – being balanced, having two parts that match. We used symmetry in our drawing for a butterfly – same shapes, colours and sizes.

In our own schoolyard, Savanna caught two long-headed grasshoppers or shouryou-batta. We set them free after observing them. On one of the cooler mornings, we visited the rice fields across the Narai river again. The last we went was in mid-June. Savanna: Wow, we can see the rice! Are there frogs? It’s so green, like our hats!

We finally harvested our carrots but they were really too tiny to eat. Savanna: Not enough nutrients! But this one is big. Can we make into craft? See the leaves look like insect feelers! We had fun learning how to plant them and naming the parts – roots, stem, leaves.

We have been practising for our paraballoon dance for the Sports Festival. In line with the theme Sharing the Planet, Savanna will fly like butterflies! Please see the Youtube link below for our song. Enjoy! Till next week, have a fabulous weekend.