

Take your student for a caterpillar hunt. Place a small twig or two in the home for it to use during the pupation phase of its life. Prepare a caterpillar home using a small fish tank, a shoebox or milk carton with a hole cut for viewing. Use The Very Hungry Caterpillar Count and Clip cards for more counting fun!

If your student is writing, you may want to have him complete this sentence “On_, he ate_, but he was still hungry.”

You will also use them in the next lesson.Īfter reading the story, discuss the word sequence. Ask your student, what day did the story start? What day did it end? What happened on Monday? Ask your student to put the days of the week cards in order. Then, ask him to match the days of the week with the food that was eaten on that day. (For a younger child, you may just want to put the foods in order). You can also use the food for counting exercises. Use the Days of the Week Cards printable to practice putting the days of the week in order. To the tune of the Adams Family theme songĭays of the week, days of the week, days of the week (snap, snap) The week. You can also use this fun song: This book lends itself as the perfect opportunity for teaching days of the week! You can use Eric Carle’s Today is Monday book to sing the days of In this printable pack, you’ll find these lessons and activities for The Very Hungry Caterpillar: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Printables and Activities He stayed inside for more than 2 weeks.Thanks to This Reading Mama for creating this The Very Hungry Caterpillar Printable Activity Pack for Homeschool Share. He built a small house, called a cocoon around himself.He was a big, fat, c a t e r p i l l a r. Now, the c a t e r p i l l a r was no longer small.The very hungry C a t e r p i l l a r then ate through one green leaf.On Saturday he ate through 1 piece of chocolate cake ,.On Friday he ate through 5 oranges, but he was still hungry.On Thursday he ate through 4 strawberries, but he was still hungry.On Wednesday he ate through 3 plums, but he was still hungry.On Tuesday he ate through 2 pears, but he was still hungry.One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry C a t e r p i l l a r.In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.

The Very Hungry C a t e r p i l l a r by Eric Carle.
