Caterpillars Galore~

The kids (and Amelia) found all kinds of caterpillars this weekend~

So we pulled our Very Hungry Caterpillar book and made Eric Carle our artist of the day~

 Everyone painted, added tissue paper collage, and wrote something so we could laminate them~

For our Story Art Notebooks.
Sometimes taking a rabbit trail or going with interests trumps all the other things planned.
A lovely day with my kiddos.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Day~

Every spring when I taught school I always taught a huge Eric Carle unit and since SJ has been reading it for reading workshop, I decided we would celebrate on Fun Friday.

Here's a run down of what we did together...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

I have a storytelling kit so we flipped up the piano bench seat and used it to act out the story as we read it for Language Arts~

 EK was the helper and called them up to put on the pieces.

For math we gathered the fruit pieces in a basket and drew them out one by one sorting them as we went. We counted and recorded the results on a graph. EK and SJ added a few skills to their sheet and the boys just colored and counted~

We worked on our patterning and fine motor skills as we made a caterpillar necklace with circles and pasta. This was definitely Evie's favorite thing we did all day!~

For writing we made a cute book of all the things the caterpillar ate and strung a ribbon through as if he were eating holes in their book~

{My dishwasher has been on the blink and the repairman showed up right in the middle of the morning... EK took right over and made sure everyone stayed on task coloring their pages!}

 

 Next was science and we made the life cycle of the butterfly~

 and little clothespin/coffee filter butterflies!

Here they are with all their treasures made and ready for lunch~

 in which we made Very Hungry Caterpillar fruit kabobs!

A VERY fun Very Hungry Caterpillar Day!