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Spell Bee Word: Butterfly

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What does butterfly mean?

Word: Butterfly

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Butterfly means an insect with large, often colourful wings that visits flowers to feed.

How do you spell butterfly?

Syllables: but - ter - fly

Tricky part: Butter needs a double t in the middle. Many children write only one t.

Watch out for: buterfly, butrfly

Memory tip: Picture the two t's as a butterfly's two feelers standing side by side.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. butterflies in your stomach: A nervous, fluttery feeling before something important. Example: "Ishaan had butterflies in his stomach before the school play."

Butterfly in a sentence

Example 1: A yellow butterfly sat on the marigold.

Example 2: We saw many butterflies in the park after the rain.

Example 3: Tara drew a butterfly with orange and black wings.

Fun Fact

Butterflies taste with their feet. Tiny sensors on their legs tell them if a leaf is right for laying eggs.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) butterfley
b) butterflye
c) butterfly
d) butterflie

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c) butterfly. Fly at the end is spelt just as it is on its own, with nothing after the y.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

butt_rfly

a) a
b) o
c) u
d) e

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d) e. The first part is the word butter, so e goes in.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lytfbreut

a) buttefrly
b) butterfly
c) butetrfly
d) buttrefly

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b) butterfly. Clap but-ter-fly as you check each choice; only one keeps all three beats in order.

Word Chain

Complete the word sequence:

egg, caterpillar, pupa, ____

a) spider
b) butterfly
c) beetle
d) bee

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b) butterfly. These are the stages of a butterfly's life, and the adult comes last.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a butterfly drink from flowers?

a) pollen
b) sap
c) dew
d) nectar

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d) nectar

2. How many wings does a butterfly have?

a) eight
b) two
c) six
d) four

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d) four

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with bu: bulldozer, bulky, building, bungalow, buffalo

More words from this list

decoration, furniture, housefly, marvel, plump, absent, building, cushion

Next steps

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