Miss Personality had been keeping a close eye on another chrysalis, as it looked like the butterfly would emerge soon. As soon as she got up this morning she shot outside to check on it. At some point around lunch time Miss Personality excitedly came running inside yelling at me to come have a look. What we found was a butterfly fresh out of the chrysalis with very short squashed up wings. Miss Personality was a bit concerned about it as it also had a fat bottom. I then reminded her, from a book that we had read, that when they first emerge, they need to pump the fluid inside their body, to fill out the wings. So I said we will come back later and have a look. Sure enough when Miss Personality came back a little while later, it's wings were at normal size. Miss Personality came out side many times to make sure it was okay and to watch it finally fly off when it was ready.
A while ago, Miss Personality and I sat down and put together some questions about swan plants and butterflies, that we would like to find the answers too. Miss Personality has already answered the swan plant questions, so now it was time to move on to the butterfly ones. Miss Personality had already asked me if she could just make a guess at what the answers to the questions could be. I said yes, at it is an interesting way to see just how much knowledge she actually has on butterflies. Tomorrow she will go onto the internet to research and check her answers to see if they are correct. The one that aren't right, she can then correct them and we can print out the questions and answers and put them in her book we are putting together.
Are you doing a unit study at the moment? What is it about? How did you decide what to put in it?
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