Our Lessons For the Week!
Date: Tuesday May 12, 2020
What is our theme? The Very Hungry caterpillar
MA Guidelines/Standards:
APL4: The child will demonstrate creativity in thinking and use of materials.
APL8: The child will be able to retain and recall information.
Pre-K-LS1-1 (MA). Compare, using descriptions and drawings, the external body parts of animals (including humans) and plants and explain functions of some of the observable body parts.
Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Book: The very Hungry Caterpillar By: Eric Carle https://youtu.be/btFCtMhF3iI
Materials:
Paper
2 toilet paper rolls
red and green paint
2 paper plate or a plate from home
markers
Activity (Procedure):
Activity Wrap Up:
Ask you child, do caterpillars really eat those kinds of foods? What do caterpillars eat? What happens to caterpillars?
How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Ask questions about the book? and are they able to remember anything that happened in the book.
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How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
They can draw a scene for their caterpillar
Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
If you don’t have paint, have them trace around the toilet paper roll with the markers
Date: Tuesday May 12, 2020
What is our theme? The Very Hungry caterpillar
MA Guidelines/Standards:
APL4: The child will demonstrate creativity in thinking and use of materials.
APL8: The child will be able to retain and recall information.
Pre-K-LS1-1 (MA). Compare, using descriptions and drawings, the external body parts of animals (including humans) and plants and explain functions of some of the observable body parts.
Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
Book: The very Hungry Caterpillar By: Eric Carle https://youtu.be/btFCtMhF3iI
Materials:
Paper
2 toilet paper rolls
red and green paint
2 paper plate or a plate from home
markers
Activity (Procedure):
- pour the red paint in one of the plates and green in the other just enough to cover the bottom of the plates.
- standing up, place one of the toilet paper rolls in the red paint and the other toilet paper roll in the green paint.
- have your child stamp on the paper with the toilet paper roll in a line or zig zag lines
- have you child draw draw the different food the caterpillar ate underneath each circle with the makers
Activity Wrap Up:
Ask you child, do caterpillars really eat those kinds of foods? What do caterpillars eat? What happens to caterpillars?
How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Ask questions about the book? and are they able to remember anything that happened in the book.
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How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
They can draw a scene for their caterpillar
Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
If you don’t have paint, have them trace around the toilet paper roll with the markers
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