The weather was perfect to release our butterflies that emerged over the weekend. The children enjoyed observing them in their pavilion before we set them free in the garden. We used information books to find out more about butterflies and learnt new vocabulary such as proboscis and camouflage.
“The butterfly is climbing”
“I see sleeping”
“Is legs”
“It got ‘tenae”
“They like to drink the orange juice”
“Does the butterfly have teeth?”
“What’s that on the wings?”
“It’s flying”
“The butterfly is the same colour as the leaf. It’s green”
“The butterfly eggs look like corn”
“Si. Mariposa”
We asked parents what the word for ‘butterfly’ is in their home language:
- Farachey-Arabic
- Mariposa-Spanish
- Vlinder-Dutch
- Balan Balis – Somali
- Fluture- Romanian
- Papillon – French
- Labalaba- Yoruba
- Obalame -Edo
- Fore-Bengali
- Buom buom-Vietnamese
All such beautiful words for beautiful creatures.