Revisit: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We love this story for so many reasons. We love the art and we love the idea to grow into something wonderful.  This revisit was mainly a review for Benji  and an opportunity to extend higher learning for Jacob. 

We read the book and went over all the stages of the caterpillar and then learned our really big word Metamorphosis. We talked about other things that go through a metamorphosis.

We used our story helpers from Kizclub to help retell the story and to let Benji work on sequence. After that we worked on summarizing the story and used this wonderful worksheet to record our summery. 

We also did some fun crafts. We cut out a simple set of wings for a butterfly and then used a craft stick for the body. We used sponges to paint.

We did some recycle art for the caterpillar. We reused egg cartons and painted them and used some left over scraps from the art bin to make them special.

Here is the final product. Don't forget to display the art in the classroom or in your home. 

Extensions and Resources:

• The Eric Carle Web Site
• Sparkle Box- free printables and lesson ideas
• Homeschool Share - tons of printables and ideas for a full unit of learning
• Scholastic - Lesson plans

First Day of School!

I am sure I am not alone here.... Our first day of school is going great, but things didn't get started quite on time and every activity seemed to be super exciting and take more time than I planned for. Hopefully come tomorrow things will be not so new and move a little quicker.

Our desired start time was 7:45 but 8:15 is when we actually started
Our break time was supposed to be at 9:45 but it turned out to be 10:15

Jacob was ready and eager to listen!

Benji was excited and proud that he can do school things well!

Things we have done today:

1. math meeting
2. calendar
3. math folder(folder 1)
4. this wonderful word family set from Making learning fun(folder 2)
5. a worksheet about following school rules(folder 2)
6. our 8 keys character lesson

Stay tuned for our afternoon update!