Literacy Group

During my April literacy group, we did activities around The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. A long time ago, I had laminated PCS symbols that corresponded to the book:

I can't find the source of my pictures but you can find similar ones at KizClub.

We handed out some of each of these symbols to the kids and the expectation was that when I read about the item they had they would hand me the symbol. When they handed me the symbol, the kid got to pull the caterpillar through the book.  I have a big board book copy and a hungry caterpillar that would fit through the holes.

          

Then I had brought some grocery store flyers, and the kids filled completed this sentence:

For each child, I made hungry caterpillars from muffin cups that they could use to learn to spell their name, or to practice spelling their name in a fun way.  I used alphabet stickers, mini muffin cups, scraps of paper, bristol board and velcro.  Dollarama sells patterned muffin cups, and I was able to find these green gingham ones. I could not find red muffin cups, so I improvised and used the gold ones, I already had a home, to make his head.  I used scraps of paper to add the details. Then I laminated all the pieces and velcroed them all together.

Very Hungry Caterpillar and Days of the Week

In January we are learning about then and now but I decided to start the new year learning about the Days of the Week. I thought it would be a great way to start the new year, a new topic but something that my students were familiar with.

On Pinterest, I found a days of the week caterpillar made from paper plates.  You can see the original pin here.

From that original pin, we created this bulletin board for the hallway.  During the snow day, we pained all the paper plates and then we finished it today.

 

Here are some close up views of the bulletin board:

We also created a "life and paste days of the week activity" to go along with reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.  We read the book a number of times during the week and talked about the different days of the week.  I had the students use the lift and paste activity to identify the various days as we read the book.

You can get your own copy this activity from Making Learning Fun.