My name is Dana Barrientos, and we are going to read a story for our story time today,
called "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."
And in this story, we'll be focusing on the sequence of days
and sequence of items that the caterpillar eats.
and also be identifying those items as whether they were a healthy food,
or a not healthy food for a caterpillar,
and to talk about the difference between those.
This is both a sequencing activity and also--or a language--because it helps the students to
use complete sentences when talking and to use describing words
when they're describing objects that they may or may not be familiar with.
Alright. So the title of our story is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar",
and the author's name is Eric Carle.
Now today, I want you to pay special attention to something.
We're gonna be looking at the food that the caterpillar was eating,
and we're gonna see if he remembered that caterpillars,
(to get big and strong, so they can make their chrysalis)
they have to eat healthy food, right?
Just like you have to eat healthy food, so you can get big and strong?
(Class:) Yes (Teacher:) Right? Okay.
Who wants to get big and tall?
(Class:) Me! (Teacher:) Yeah!
So you have to eat super--yeah, me too-- you have to eat some super healthy food.
Alright, here we go.
In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.
Is the caterpillar inside? Let's see.
Mmm, I don't know...
You were right.
On Sunday morning, the warm sun came out and--POP!
Out of the egg came a tiny and VERY hungry caterpillar.
So what day did he come out?
On...
(Together) Sunday.
On Sunday. What day comes after Sunday?
(Class) Monday!
Monday. Let's see what he ate on Monday.
On Monday, he ate through ONE apple.
But he was still hungry.
Did he choose a healthy snack?
Is an apple healthy snack? Sure, who brought an apple today?
Yes, that's a great healthy snack.
So so far he's eating apples, pears, ...
plums...
strawberries, oranges, and those are all kinds of...?
(Class) Fruits.
Fruits, and those are very healthy. Then came the weekend.
This would be like our day off of school. He kind of had his day off, too.
I don't think he ate very healthy. Do you?
Let's see what he ate.
He ate some chocolate cake.
Is that healthy?
(Class) No.
He had... ate through one ice cream cone. Was that a healthy snack?
(Class) No.
No. He ate through one pickle.
What do you think about pickles. Is that a healthy food?
(Class) No.
Mmm, I don't think you're going to get very much--many vitamins, but it's okay.
A cheese? Is cheese healthy for you?
Yeah, that comes from milk.
And last was watermelon. Was that a healthy snack?
(Together) Yes.
Oh, and you know what?
After he was done eating all of those foods,
(Student) He was full.
He was, and he had a tummy ache. What do you look like when your tummy hurts?
Ohh, does your tummy hurt? You holding onto it? Yeah.
So then on Sunday, he saw a nice green leaf and he thought, 'Oh, that looks delicious.'
So he ate all the way through that green leaf, and you know what?
His tummy started to feel a lot better.
Probably because that's what caterpillars are supposed to eat anyway, right?
They like leaves and things that they can find on the green--on the ground.
Do you remember our caterpillars when they were sitting up here,
and they were eating all of that food in their little jar?
They got a lot bigger didn't they? 'Cause when we got him they were like...
that big, and then they kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger...
and then they turned into their chrysalis or their cocoon, right?
Yeah. And tada!
He came out of-- a butterfly.
So do you think he made some good healthy food choices?
Yeah, some of the time. Did he make some not too good choices?
No. He was eating a lot of sweets wasn't he? And he got a tummy ache. The end.