{"id":2103,"date":"2020-06-01T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T08:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:51:49","slug":"the-very-hungry-caterpillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/2020\/06\/01\/the-very-hungry-caterpillar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Very Hungry Caterpillar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s learn about the story &#8216;The Very Hungry Caterpillar&#8217; this week.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Maybe you have this story in your house&#8230;\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" nofocus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.com.au\/jpg-large\/9780140569322.jpg\" alt=\"See the source image\" width=\"242\" height=\"169\" aria-label=\"See the source image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If not here is a good wee video of the story for you to watch&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Animated Film\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/75NQK-Sm1YY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Days of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember our &#8216;Days of the week song&#8217;? (It is to the tune of the Adams family).\u00a0 Can you teach all your family our days of the week song?:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Days of the week (Clap, Clap),<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"text-align: left;color: #333333;text-transform: none;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif;font-size: 16px;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;text-decoration: none;cursor: text;float: none;background-color: #ffffff\">Days of the week (Clap, Clap)<\/span>,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Days of the week, Days of the week, Days of the week (Clap, Clap)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>There&#8217;s Sunday and there&#8217;s Monday, there&#8217;s Tuesday and there&#8217;s Wednesday, there&#8217;s Thursday and there&#8217;s Friday and then there&#8217;s Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Days of the week (Clap, Clap),<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Days of the week (Clap, Clap),<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Days of the week, Days of the week, Days of the week (Clap, Clap)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Days of the week are tricky maybe you could remember using some clues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which days do we normally go to nursery?<\/li>\n<li>Which days do we not go to nursery?<\/li>\n<li>Which days are called the weekend?<\/li>\n<li>Which day did the caterpillar eat an apple, pears, plums etc?<\/li>\n<li>What is a week? The caterpillar goes to sleep for 2 weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Art work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Playdough<\/em>: can you make a playdough caterpillar or a playdough butterfly?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" nofocus\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-VHJmSp-ry8s\/T6c2WgpfwRI\/AAAAAAAABLI\/OOBMV06o04Y\/s1600\/IMG_1411.JPG\" alt=\"See the source image\" width=\"308\" height=\"231\" aria-label=\"See the source image\" data-bm=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Counting &amp; Measure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This book is a great way to reinforce numbers to 7:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Count the days<\/li>\n<li>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)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The caterpillar keeps getting bigger throughout the story, this is a good way to reinforce size:\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe put things in order of size<\/li>\n<li>Talk about the sizes of the people in the family<\/li>\n<li>Talk about how they have grown since they were babies (maybe do a timeline using photographs of your child growing up)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Healthy Eating &amp; exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk about which foods are healthy and which foods are a treat.<\/li>\n<li>You could sort the foods in your house into two groups: healthy and treats.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe keep a chart of how many healthy foods your child has eaten today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe you could try &#8216;The Very Hungry Caterpillar&#8217; cosmic kids yoga to do some exercise too<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Very Hungry Caterpillar | A Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure!\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhWDiQRrC1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone Let&#8217;s learn about the story &#8216;The Very Hungry Caterpillar&#8217; this week.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Maybe you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/2020\/06\/01\/the-very-hungry-caterpillar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64768,64761,64762,93,64773,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-fun-activities","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-nursery","category-parental-engagement","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/WestfieldNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}