Opportunity 1 Watch and Discuss.
Click (ctrl – click) to watch the story:
https://youtu.be/75NQK-Sm1YY
With a few pieces of real fruit near you, talk about the shapes,
colours and the taste of fruit. Talk about the fruit you like best.
What do you eat when you are very hungry? What do you drink when
you are very thirsty?
Talk about the holes that the caterpillar made in the fruit.
Expand on ways snails and other animals eat:
https://youtu.be/HEbuaoaC2Uk
Do you know other stories of hungry animals, maybe a hungry
wolf, a fox, an ogre or a troll? Here are a few titles for further
reading: Little Red Riding Hood, The Fox and the Crow, Jack and the
Bean Stalk, The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Opportunity 2 Think and Experiment.
Let’s think about light, darkness and colour: 1)Find a colourful
picture from one of your story books. 2)In the evening look at the
picture and name a few colours in it. 3)Ask an adult to switch off
the light for a few seconds. 4)Then look at the colourful picture
again. Can you still see the colours in the dark? What helps us to
see colours?
Let’s experiment with colour. Point at orange, green and purple
in the pictures below.
On a large piece of paper using only red, blue and yellow 1) Mix
red with yellow to draw an orange, 2) Mix blue with yellow to draw
two green leaves, 3) Mix blue with red to draw three purple
plums.
Opportunity 3 Recalling
Do you remember the fruit that the hungry caterpillar ate
through from Monday to Friday?
On Monday he ate through ____ apple.
On Tuesday he ate through ____ pears.
On Wednesday he ate through ____ plums.
On Thursday he ate through ____ strawberries.
On Friday he ate through ____ oranges.
1 2 3 4 5
Opportunity 4 Searching and Exploring
This is the hungry caterpillar’s menu for Saturday.
Can you point to food that is meat, sweets, dairy, fresh fruit
or vegetables?
Fresh fruit
vegetables
dairy
meat
sweets
Look for food in your kitchen; look in the fridge, in the
freezer, in cupboards... Point at each item, say what it is and
answer the following questions:
1. Do we have this for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner or as a
snack?
2. Do we need to peel, to wash or to scrub this before eating or
before cooking it?
Opportunity 5 Days of the Week in Sequence
Here is an old poem about the days of the week.
On Monday we wash,
On Tuesday we dry,
On Wednesday we iron,
On Thursday we fry,
On Friday we shop,
On Saturday we play,
On Sunday we rest ...
...the whole of the day.
These are rhyming words: say - clay, sun – fun.
Find rhyming words in the poem: Which word rhymes with fry - _ _
_ and which word rhymes with day - _ _ _ _?
Can you sing the days of the week?
https://youtu.be/mXMofxtDPUQ
Opportunity 6 Let’s Pretend.
Listen to this song and pretend to fly like a butterfly in the
sky, stretch up so high, twist, sleep through the night and roll
like a butterfly.
https://youtu.be/oYI0TPJOuGk
Butterflies fly but caterpillars don’t. They just crawl. Can you
pretend you are a caterpillar crawling as you reach for food?
Listen and move to this lovely song;
Caterpillars Only Crawl https://youtu.be/vnNmZmQ6Z00
Opportunity 7 Choosing What to Eat
Shall we make a menu?
What would you like to eat on the different days?
If you want to eat an apple and a sandwich on Monday draw a
small apple and a sandwich in the space near Monday. Here is an
example:
On Monday
On Monday
On Tuesday
On Wednesday
On Thursday
On Friday
On Saturday
On Sunday
Opportunity 8 Let’s Move.
To whom do you say hello! every morning?
With whom do you spend your day? How do you spend your day? What
do you like to play with? Do you sing? Do you dance? Do you
paint?
In this song children tell us what they do every day. Move and
sing along with their Hello Song.
https://youtu.be/gghDRJVxFxU
Opportunity 9 Getting Creative
You can learn how to draw a butterfly by following this link:
https://youtu.be/MIAiglTFgLk
If you enjoy drawing butterflies you may draw a few in different
shapes and sizes. Prepare a green collage for a garden setting and
then stick on it the butterflies you draw. Use as many colours as
you like including your favourite colour.
What is your favourite colour? Here is a song that helps you
think of colours. Watch the puppets as they sing about their
favourite colours: https://youtu.be/zxIpA5nF_LY
Opportunity 10 Learning and Discovering
The butterfly has 6 legs, 3 on the left side and 3 on the right
side. The butterfly has 4 wings, 2 on each side. A caterpillar can
eat a whole leaf but the butterfly can only suck liquid
(nectar).
To learn about the stages in the life cycle of the butterfly
from egg to caterpillar (or larva)
to cocoon (or chrysalis) to butterfly (adult)
click on this link: https://youtu.be/7PG2cPqLpKc
Finally, here are the 10 most beautiful butterflies in the
world: https://youtu.be/KO92tayGydg
One of these beauties has a number that is bigger than 80 and
less than 90 on its wings. What is the number? _ _ Watch it. It
tells you in the feature.
