Tell them that they will be divided into groups and will put the days of the week cards in the order they think they belong. Show the students the days of the week and food cards. Discuss the words first, second, last etc. Procedure:Īfter discussing the book ask students if they know a good definition for the word order.
Read the story and discuss what happened to the caterpillar on each day, focusing specifically on what he ate. Show the students the book, preview each page together and ask them questions about what they think is going to happen in the story. Tell students that today they are going to learn more about the days of the week by reading about a very special caterpillar and his order of events during the week. Do you think that everyone has an order to how they do some things each day? What about animals? Do they have an order? What do you think a caterpillar does each day? What types of food do you think they eat each day? Do you think they have breakfast, snack, lunch and dinner like we do?.Who can tell us what order they did things in today? What happens in this classroom each day we come in to school?.Do you think that each day we do things in an order? ( get up in the morning, brush our teeth, eat breakfast, etc.).Does everyone remember how we use our calendar in class each morning so we know what month it is, what day of the week it is and what the date is? Who knows what the days of the week are? What day of the week is today?.Stimulate discussion by asking questions relevant to the topic and class activities. Have students sit together on the floor in a group. Paper, crayons, scissors, glue, pencils.A clue will also be given at bottom of ditto (Ex: Monday- a picture of one apple). One ditto for each day of the week, showing each letter of the word, scrambled, in a box to cut out.Food cards, including all foods mentioned in the book.Days of the week written on 5×8 or 3×5 index cards.The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle.Individually demonstrate comprehension by retelling The Very Hungry Caterpillar story through an individually created book.Sequence story events and days of the week, according to the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Objective(s): By the time this lesson is completed, students will be able to:
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