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
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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