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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Don't forget to share some of your photos or videos via Tapestry or 2Simple, or email your work and photos to Eyfs@asasps.org. You have all worked so hard at home, keep it up, your teachers are very proud of you! We are excited to see your completed activities this week!
Don't forget to share some of your photos or videos via Tapestry or 2Simple, or email your work and photos to Eyfs@asasps.org. You have all worked so hard at home, keep it up, your teachers are very proud of you! We are excited to see your completed activities this week!
This week all of your learning activities are going to link to another Eric Carle story. I bet you are already familiar with the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, its a firm favourite!
This week all of your learning activities are going to link to another Eric Carle story. I bet you are already familiar with the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, its a firm favourite!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
You can watch the animated version of the story here, if you don't have it at home!
Can you think of a way to re-tell the story in the correct sequence? Could you use real fruits you have at home to illustrate how much the caterpillar ate each day? Maybe you could have a go at writing a sentence each day of the week to record what the Hungry Caterpillar ate on that day. By the end of the week you should have record most of the story!!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar likes to eat lots of different foods. What is your favourite food? Is it is something you could make yourself? (cake, biscuits, fruit smoothies, milkshakes, cereal ) If you need an adult to cook it for you, perhaps you could talk to them about the ingredients that are needed for your favourite food or meal. Could you draw and list them or use pictures to tell us about your favourite food?
In the story, the caterpillar eats different foods each day. Can you remember the seven days of the week? I wonder if you could make a food diary using pictures and labels to record all of the different foods you eat throughout the week?
If you have a paper plate, are you able to make a craft version of some of the foods eaten by The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
Remember to keep up with your phonics. Have a go at this pick a picture game to help you with your blending skills, needed for reading .
t-t-5221-butterfly-life-cycle-powerpoint[1].pptThis Power point may help your understanding of the caterpillar's life cycle too.
Who fancies having a go at making their own cocoon? What materials could you use to create it? How could you make it the right colour (brown) or make it hang as if it it stuck to the underneath of a leaf?
Have a look at this short film which show you how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly. Can you use it to help you create your own caterpillar life cycle? You could use pictures or draw the different stages and label them. Remember to use your phonics to help you build the words you need!
Maybe you could represent each of the different stages of the life cycle by using craft materials?
Have a look at these games. They may help you understand what symmetry is.
If you enjoy crafting and making, could you paint or draw a butterfly? Folding paper is always a good way to make it symmetrical – the same each side. You could fold, draw and then cut out a butterfly shape. If you have paint make some spots or shapes one side and then fold it. If you don't have paint could you use stickers or stamps ?
Take a peek at this interactive, number ordering game. Remember to choose a game that will help you order the numbers by value going backwards as well as forwards!. As a challenge, if you can read numbers bigger than 20, then by all means have a go...remember to get some photographic evidence for us!
Can you copy and continue these repeating patterns to complete The Very Hungry Caterpillar's body and as a challenge, make up your own repeating pattern? You can use colours, paints, chalks or even coloured objects that represent the different combination of colours. What else could you use?
T-T-4879-Healthy-Eating-and-Living-Powerpoint_ver_4.pptWhat do you know about healthy living? Part of being healthy is to eat a balance of the right kinds of food. The Very Hungry Caterpillar eats a variety of healthy fruits and some foods that aren't so healthy. Can you think about the foods he eats throughout the story and find some way to sort them into healthy and unhealthy groups?
Can you use pictures from magazines to sort healthy foods?
Use the Power Point to help you think about your body and how you keep it healthy. Perhaps you could design a poster to share with us how you do this? What healthy foods do you eat? What exercise do you do?
If you follow the link above ...you can find a week's worth of themed maths sessions based on this weeks story. Scroll down and search for Summer term Week 3 to find the right week. It looks something like this image to the right of this box. There are 5 days worth of lovely activities.
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