The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Emma Powell

This week in Reception we have continued to be storytellers using ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ story to inspire our learning. We have continued to put actions to the story so that we can act it out from beginning to end. We are getting very good at remembering all of the key vocabulary and using our words in the correct order.

We have also enjoyed taking part in lots of activities in our provision areas. We have used finger paints to create our own caterpillars, making sure we added the correct amount of parts to the body. We have been scientists by finding out about life cycles and have also used our phonic knowledge to write simple sentences about The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

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Carrots!

Claire Goodyer

Class 3 have been on a fact finding mission this afternoon, finding and reading interesting facts about carrots to add to our anchor charts. It was lovely to see how confidently they applied their phonics skills to the challenge.

They also learnt a new skill and got to grips with a new piece of equipment whilst peeling the carrots.

In art we looked carefully at the detail on the carrots when completing our line drawings. We critiqued our first drafts thinking about how we could improve them.

We’re looking forward to completing our carrotfact files

Drawing Club Crew

Elouise Chadwick

Crew Chadwick and Crew Inman have been impressing us with their drawing skills in crew! We have been looking carefully at the characters from the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ written by Eric Carle. Take a look at some of our beautiful work…

Yoga Animal Poses

Elouise Chadwick

This week in P.E we have enjoyed practicing our zoo animal yoga poses. We thought about our breathing and took slow deep breaths when holding our poses. We are getting better at holding our balance…

Mindful Monday

Laura Parsons

We started our morning with a rose and a thorn check in followed by a talk about why World Religion Day is important. We decided to test our knowledge with a game of dominoes made up with lots of religious symbols. Our check out was what skills we needed to be successful this morning at our game.

It was a lovely crew start to our week,

Mrs Parsons xx

The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Sarah Winkley

This week Nursery have been storytellers, learning to retell the classic story of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. The children became active learners by using physical literacy actions to embed key vocabulary and events from the story. They used the prompts to help them recall and retell the story.

The children have examined the key character, the Very Hungry Caterpillar and have looked at how he develops and changes throughout the story. The children have used models to paint and sculpt their own caterpillars. They have used loose parts to represent the variations of the character as both a caterpillar and a butterfly.

During their Tranquil Tuesday Crew, Nursery sequenced the story events and talked about the kinds and amounts of food the caterpillar was eating. They thought about the emotions the caterpillar experienced in the story looking a picture cues and their own experiences. They modelled these faces to each other.

After gaining a good understanding of the key character the children followed an online tutorial to help them draw the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

In provision we have also painted fruits from the story using toy fruits as inspiration.

During our Maths inputs the children have been learning to count using “careful counting”. This is touching and using number names for each object they are counting. The children became problem solvers as they began to investigate how they could find out; “How many of each fruit were in a basket?”

First it was demonstrated to the children how to carefully count using touch and number names for each piece of fruit and then they modelled to their peers, leading their own learning.

In our Thoughtful Thursday Crew the children thought about the cocoon that the caterpillar wrapped himself in and we likened it to being inside a sleeping bag or wrapping ourselves in our coats. The children practised the life skill of zipping their own coats using their fine motor skills.

Finally the children finished the week by thinking about the Very Hungry Caterpillar at the beginning of the story and comparing him to the end of the story. They used some of the physical literacy prompts to help them recall the stages of the caterpillar and key sentences from the text. They drew the caterpillar at the start of the story as either an “egg on a leaf” or a “Teeny, tiny caterpillar” and then as he appeared at the end of the story as “A big, fat caterpillar” or a “Beautiful, colourful butterfly” as they began to further understand the changes which the caterpillar goes through in preparation for when they become Scientists next week.