The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We just finished our literature unit on Eric Carle's book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We did so many fun activities during this unit.

Language Arts:

The kids made name caterpillars with an AB pattern.

 We made a chart with the day of the week, the number of fruits the very hungry caterpillar ate, and the type of fruit he ate.

The students finger painted a picture of the food they would eat if they were the very hungry caterpillar.

After they finger painted their paper, they drew the food they would eat on the back of the paper, cut it our and glued it to the paper with their writing.

Math:
We made a graph for what we wanted to write our class book about. The students chose a frog. So we wrote the book The Ravenous Tadpole.

The students made caterpillars and counted by 2s, 5s, and 10s. They wrote the numbers on the segments of the caterpillar.

The students made dot pattern caterpillars.

Science:

The students categorized food as not healthy and healthy.

The students made caterpillars and then labeled the parts of a caterpillar.

The students made butterflies and then labeled the parts of a butterfly.

We learned about the life cycle of a butterfly and made the craft below. We also sang the song "The Life of a Butterfly" (sung to Skip to My Lou).

We made a can, have, are chart about caterpillars.

Cooking:

The students made this caterpillar using grapes, a grape tomato, carrots, and black decorating gel.

Poetry:
The students wrote caterpillar acrostic poems

Art:
The students made butterflies. They folded their paper in half, put paint in the center of the paper and then squished the paper to spread out the paint.

Social Studies:

The students practiced putting the days of the week in order. They had to match the day of the week with the food that the caterpillar ate.

Another fun literature unit complete!