The very hungry caterpillar

Activities

Are you thinking about activities you can do with your pupils after reading this book? Check out the following ones!

Activity 1 - What does the very hungry caterpillar eat today?

Children have to drag both the correct day of the week and the fruit the very hungry caterpillar ate this day.The goal of the activity is that the children should be able to recognize the written words of days of the week and fruits.

We can use questions like:

- What day is today? 

-  Can you find the word for ‘Monday’?...

-  What does the caterpillar eat on Monday?...

-  Can you find the word for Apple?...

- Can you put them in their boxes?

Activity 2 - Guessing what word is 

The teacher plays the drum a number of times according to the syllables of a word choosen and children have to identify what the word is. 

In the case in which there are several words with the same number of syllables, we can help children identify the word using some clues: the final sound of the word, the first letter,...

Activity 3 - I spy...

Children have to guess the word seeing the picture and write it in the spaces. It can be more than one possibility for each picture.

For working with this activity we use the idea of “I spy with my little eye something that…”

Examples of clues:

· It´s in the picture

· Ends with the letter …

· Has the letter … in it

· Has … letters

· Fits in the sentence: …

Activity 4 - Rhyming words

The words fat and big are very important in the story. For this reason the teacher gives children the possiblily to find words that rhymes with them.

The teacher will interact with the children asking questions like:

-       What is this? Can you read the word?

-       And wig rhymes with fat? Mm… And with big? Wig- big.

-       Can you say the middle sound of wig? And the final sound? Can you say both together?

-       Can you say the middle sound of big? And the final sound? Can you say both together?

Activity 5 - Point the words

In this activity, we work with high frecuency words related with the story “The very hungry caterpillar”. We use a Word Wall, and the children have to point specific words, acording to the following intructions:

-       Can you point a word that ends with the letter “e?”

-       Can you point a word that starts with the letter “c”?

-       Can you point a word that has two syllables?

-       Can you point a word that means “very small”?

-       Can you point a word that makes sense in this sentence: “he was ___ very hungry”?

-       Can you point a compound word?

Activity 6 - Do you remember the story?

Children have to listen carefully to the teacher when she read a word. Then, the whole class will discuss where we should put this word: at the begging, at the middle or at the end. Finally the teacher will put the word in the correct box. 

We can use questions like:

- When appear the word ‘egg’?...

- Can you find the word “ice-cream”? Can you stand up and point it?...

- How was the caterpillar at the beginning? Tiny, isn’t it? And when it ate so much food, how was it? So we put “big” in the beginning or the middle?

- Can you drag the word for me?...