Year 5 – Life cycle of a butterfly

Hippo, Science, Wolf

In Science, we investigated the life cycle of a butterfly. As butterflies are beautiful, artistic creatures, we decided to use our creative skills and clay model their lives.

Through this, we showed the different stages, explained the purpose of each and began to crack the mystery of how a lowly, crawling caterpillar turns into a majestic, flying creature.

We photographed our models, labelled them with technical vocabulary and have included a few examples below.