On our first journey up Mt St John for the term, we noticed that the girls were particularly captivated by the buttercups. The striking yellow flowers were a huge talking point and many of the girls insisted on filling their hats with them to bring back to our classroom. There were beautiful encounters where the girls reflected the yellow from the flowers underneath their friends chins to find out whether they 'liked butter or not' and several of the girls commented on how the colour would sometimes rub off onto their fingers.
When we arrived back at the classroom the girls were invited to draw the buttercups which they had picked in black. Later we added yellow dye and also narrated and wrote short stories about buttercups. Here are some images of our encounters with the buttercups:
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