A variety of activities having to do with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

Objectives:

Affective goals-

The student will:

• possess a different outlook on eating (nutrition)
• become familiarized with the days of the week
• learn about the different seasons
• be able to predict
• reflect on their own lives, what they eat, and what they do.

Materials:

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Plan:

1. Introducing Book: The children will be introduced to the book by the front cover. There will be some pre-reading questions: “What do you think the book is about?” “What do caterpillars do?”
2. Discussion of pictures: There will be some questions: “Have you ever seen a caterpillar with so many colors?” “How big is a caterpillar? Is it as big as big as this book?”
3. Presenting story to children: I will start off by reading the page and slowly showing the picture to the students. I have selected three different pages to ask a question “What day do you think is next?” on page 4, “What else do you think the caterpillar will eat?” on page 6, “What will happen when the caterpillar is full?” on page 8.
4. Procedures for reviewing the story: I will ask questions like “Can anyone tell me what the story was about?” “ Can anyone act out the story for me?” “What word did you see and hear that was repeated?” “Was the word ON repeated on every page?”
5. Vocabulary selected for children: On, Apple, Ate, Spring, and all the days of the week.
6. Procedures for helping children acquire words selected: The students will make a book about themselves and what they ate on different days of the week. This will allow the students to master the long and short A vowel sound, because they will have to use the word ON, in every page and the word ATE. They will get accustoms to writing and pronouncing them.
7. Procedures for helping review/rehearse words acquired: Each student will read the book they have made to family and friends, this will be homework. In class they might also have to read the book to the class.
8. Procedures for reviewing words: After writing all the vocabulary words on the board, the teacher will then go over the words and pronounce the words with the class.
9. Phonics Pattern selected: A vowel sound (short and long).
10. Procedures for teaching phonics part of lesson: We will go over words that have a long A sound and words that have a short A sound. We will go over this by finding words that have an A vowel. They will have to cut out words from old magazines that have the letter A and glue on it on a chart that says either A sound or no A sound. Then, as a class we will go over the A vowel sound and decide whether it is short or vowel. The whole class will be making the long/short A sound out loud. The children will learn from and enjoy this activity.
11. Alternative activities for children not doing phonics part of lesson: These students will be doing similar activities. They will be cutting out their spelling words from magazines and gluing them on a paper in alphabetical order. They will have to find each spelling word three times. So instead of writing them they are touching them, gluing them, and finding them.
12. Extension Activity: Using class made wooden spoons, the students will do a play, using the wooden spoons as puppets. The studng them they are touching them, gluing them, and finding them.
13. Extension Activity: Using class made wooden spoons, the students will do a play, using the wooden spoons as puppets. The stud