Hi Everyone

Let’s learn about the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ this week.  We love this story at nursery and it teaches us all about how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, days of the week and healthy eating.  Maybe you have this story in your house……..

If not here is a good wee video of the story for you to watch…….

Days of the week

Do you remember our ‘Days of the week song’? (It is to the tune of the Adams family).  Can you teach all your family our days of the week song?:

Days of the week (Clap, Clap),

Days of the week (Clap, Clap),

Days of the week, Days of the week, Days of the week (Clap, Clap)

There’s Sunday and there’s Monday, there’s Tuesday and there’s Wednesday, there’s Thursday and there’s Friday and then there’s Saturday.

Days of the week (Clap, Clap),

Days of the week (Clap, Clap),

Days of the week, Days of the week, Days of the week (Clap, Clap)

 

Days of the week are tricky maybe you could remember using some clues:

• Which days do we normally go to nursery?
• Which days do we not go to nursery?
• Which days are called the weekend?
• Which day did the caterpillar eat an apple, pears, plums etc?
• What is a week? The caterpillar goes to sleep for 2 weeks.

Art work

Playdough: can you make a playdough caterpillar or a playdough butterfly?

Painting: maybe you could make some symmetrical butterflies by folding paper in half. Paint a pattern on one side of the fold then quickly fold the paper over and rubbing it, when you open your paper you will have a perfect butterfly.

Counting & Measure

This book is a great way to reinforce numbers to 7:

• Count the days
• Count the fruit each day, maybe a grown up could write the number and get your child to draw that number of fruit (e.g. 1 apple, 2 pears etc)
•  The caterpillar keeps getting bigger throughout the story, this is a good way to reinforce size:
  • Maybe put things in order of size
  • Talk about the sizes of the people in the family
  • Talk about how they have grown since they were babies (maybe do a timeline using photographs of your child growing up)

Healthy Eating & exercise

This is a great book to talk about healthy eating especially because the caterpillar gets big and strong while he is eating the healthy foods and has a sore tummy when he eats too much unhealthy food.

• Talk about which foods are healthy and which foods are a treat.
• You could sort the foods in your house into two groups: healthy and treats.
• Maybe keep a chart of how many healthy foods your child has eaten today.

Maybe you could try ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ cosmic kids yoga to do some exercise too