29th January 2013
Today during morning meeting Mrs Bayes told us a story about two little caterpillars that had eaten all their leaves in the Dio garden over the Christmas holidays. Mrs Bayes bought some new Swan Plants for the caterpillars and showed the girls these plants.
“The poor little caterpillars have nothing more to eat and they are lost somewhere in the gardens of Diocesan School for Girls!
We need to go on a caterpillar hunt around the school to find these little creatures!”
Mrs Bayes suggested.
During our walk the girls used the ipads to take photos of their journey through the school. They investigated the flowers, leaves and plants in the gardens and asked each time
as they stopped at a plant “Are there any caterpillars here?”.
On our way past the old school house we saw our Principal Mrs McRae talking on the telephone in her office. We waved to her through the window and then she came out of her office to talk to us. We told her about the caterpillars and how important it was that we carry on and find them.
After searching through the Senior School gardens we came across the I.C.T department and went in to meet all the people that look after our computers in the school.
We took a quick photo of us all together and then continued our journey.
Lily noticed that on some of the plants there were tiny holes.
“The caterpillars must have been here!” Lily exclaimed excitedly
as she pointed at tiny holes in the leaves.
As the girls moved through the school they noticed that there were many holes on lots of the plants in the gardens. These holes seemed to be getting bigger.
The girls thought it was because we were getting closer to the caterpillars.
Our walk took us past the garden in the Junior School where we found the remainders of an old Swan Plant with no leaves on it.
“Perhaps we could look around the garden and see if the caterpillars have moved somewhere else?” suggested Mrs Bayes.
The girls continued to search and soon enough they began spotting black and yellow caterpillars.
Mika held a very dead plant with a caterpillar on it and gazed at it in wonder.
The girls collected 4 caterpillars and spotted 1 hanging on the wall of a school building.
“What is it doing?” asked Mrs Bayes
“Maybe it is exercising?” suggested Halle
“I think it is going into a cocoon!” shared Zara.
The girls carefully carried the caterpillars back on leaves to the Swan Plants
in the Foundation Class. These little caterpillars are now on our lush green
Swan Plants and have plenty of leaves to eat.
We look forward to seeing how these creatures transform over the next few
weeks and wonder what discoveries the girls will make.
