Thursday, 26 March 2020

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Thank you to Jane Walker for this resource

The Very Hungry Caterpillar



The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle


An animated version of the story
The book read by the author / illustrator himself
The Very Quiet Cricket – older students can compare the similarities and differences between the two stories.
Four book compilation of video readings (Eric Carle)
The official Eric Carle website with heaps of wonderful resources and information on the author for teachers or older students
About the author/illustrator
How the story came to be


Possible Learning Activities  
Here is the link to the folder with the resources in the Twinkl folder for the activities listed below -
Literacy
      Looking / listening / talking / reading / writing
      Retell - See - T-T-1231 (in Twinkl folder)

      Topic related vocabulary – life cycle of a butterfly / days of the week / foods

Science
      Life Cycle of a Butterfly   


              Investigation for older students -  Use of cocoon versus chrysalis - What’s the difference? Did the author make a mistake ?

Health – Healthy Eating

Maths
       Sequencing  - see T-T-1220A

      Time – Days of the Week
      Number work – Addition  - worksheets / Counting the number of food items eaten all together
See - t-n-568  and T-N-572
      Sorting – Categorisation   - Food groups / Fruit & other foods
      Shapes 

Sensory - See - T-T-27412
Movement – crawl like a caterpillar / curl up into a cocoon/chrysalis / spread your wings like a butterfly.
Art & Craft – activities including creative food preparation




Exploring the author’s art technique (also see more on the official Eric Carle website)
A multitude of other arty ideas based on the book -




Explore other books by Eric Carle - Which one was the first book published?
Challenge - Put them in the order they were published - first to last.






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