Literature/Vocabulary Project

Title:

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle

Rationale:

• By using a read aloud story with the students it engages them and helps them understand through a story what is being taught. By having the story to accompany them the students can learn vocabulary, rhyme, punctuation, sounds of letters, and can describe the pictures.

Materials:

• baggie with caterpillar picture on front

• pictures and words of things caterpillar eats in the story

• Sheet with blocks and the days of the week in separate boxes

• pictures or each student of the foods he ate

Motivation:

• "Kindergarten we have been learning about butterflies and caterpillars this week. I have a story for you called The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. I am going to read the story to you and I want you to put your thumbs up when you hear words that begin with the letter 'c'."

Vocabulary: days of the week, words with c, putting words in the caterpillar

• Students recognize words the begin with 'c'

• While reading the story have the students put their thumbs up when they hear a word that begins with the letter 'c'.

• Students get a sheet with the days of the week and pictures of the foods the caterpillar eats

• Read the part of the story again about what the caterpillar eats

• Have students put the images of what he eats in the corresponding boxes on their sheet

• For example: "On Monday he ate through one apple." The students will have to put a picture of an apple in the box that says Monday.

• Center Vocabulary work

• For a center activity, students would have a plastic bag with a picture of caterpillar on the front and pictures and words of things he ate in the story.

• The students will then have to say the word and then put it in the bag like caterpillar is eating it.

Bibliographic Data:

• Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. New York, NY: Philomel, 1994. Print.

• Center Vocabulary Work: http://www.classroomfreebies.com/2012/04/hungry-caterpillar-activity-packet.html

• The other two vocabulary ideas were self-created.