This activity engages children in their creativity to tell stories! Have fun making your own book about caterpillars and butterflies!
What is our theme? Science, Language Arts, Caterpillar/Butterflies
What is the lesson (overall purpose)?
Allow your child to get creative and make their own story about a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.
MA Guidelines/Standards:
W.PK.2. Use a combination of dictating and drawing to supply information about a topic.
W.PK.3. Use a combination of dictating and drawing to tell a story
SL.PK.6. Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
Learning Outcomes:
Student will recall information about caterpillars and butterflies.
Students will create their very own story - pictures and words!
Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
A new version from Lesson 4!
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle (Listed Below)
Materials
Activity (Procedure):
Activity Wrap Up:
Read their story! Congratulate them on a successful book!
How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
Make as many books as you’d like!
Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Students may not want to write their story about caterpillars or butterflies. Not a big deal. I would rather them create a story on something they’re interested in than something forced. Let them get creative!
What is our theme? Science, Language Arts, Caterpillar/Butterflies
What is the lesson (overall purpose)?
Allow your child to get creative and make their own story about a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.
MA Guidelines/Standards:
W.PK.2. Use a combination of dictating and drawing to supply information about a topic.
W.PK.3. Use a combination of dictating and drawing to tell a story
SL.PK.6. Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
Learning Outcomes:
Student will recall information about caterpillars and butterflies.
Students will create their very own story - pictures and words!
Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
A new version from Lesson 4!
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle (Listed Below)
Materials
- white paper folded in half to create a “book”
- Staple (along edge if you’d like)
- Crayons, markers, colored pencils
- Pen
Activity (Procedure):
- After watching the read aloud link of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, tell your child they are now going to make their very own story about a caterpillar and butterflies.
- Give them the blank folder paper book and coloring tools. Skip the cover and ask them to start by filling in the first page of the story. When they’re done ask them to tell you what this page says. Dictate (write down) exactly what they tell you.
- Move on to the second page, repeat, etc.
- When each page of their story is complete with a drawing and dictation, ask them to draw a title page and give it a Title.
- Read their story!
Activity Wrap Up:
Read their story! Congratulate them on a successful book!
How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
- Is my child able to tell me what is happening in their pictures?
- Is their story related to caterpillars/butterflies?
- Does their story show they are recalling the butterfly life cycle?
How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
Make as many books as you’d like!
Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Students may not want to write their story about caterpillars or butterflies. Not a big deal. I would rather them create a story on something they’re interested in than something forced. Let them get creative!
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