Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Grade: Kindergarten Objective: After the story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle has been read multiple times to the students over multiple days (3 days), students will be able to identify key events and details of the story and they will be able to retell the story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Common Core Standard: RI2: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Assessment: The students will
little purpose other than educating younger generations. For me, Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar has inspired me through it’s vivid illustrations to be the very person I am to today and the person that I hope to be in the future. There are some things that from everyone’s childhood that will last as memories for the rest of their lives. One of mine is my oversized board book version of a story of a caterpillar that grows into a beautiful butterfly. As a child, I marveled at the bright colors
Picture books are books in which both words and illustrations are essential to the story’s meaning (Brown, Tomlinson,1996, Pg.50). There are so many different kinds of children’s books. There are books for every age and every reading level. There are many elements that go into picture books such as line and spacing, color and light, space and perspective, texture, composition and artistic media. Picture books are an essential learning element in today’s classroom. Baby Books Baby books are simply
values of vegetables will be explored in Social Studies and Science as will the necessity of being able to read nutritional labels on food cartons. In the Media Center, the students will become familiar with Eric Carle and his story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This book will become the motivation for original stories to be written in Integrated Language Arts. During Math class the students will create forms on which to gather data about their own eating habits. Using this data, the students will
Hungry For Success They called me “a very hungry caterpillar.” I constantly wanted more. More dessert, more toys, more accessories...Was that so much to ask? I lay the blame on the 1969 classic story my mother used to recite to me every night of my infancy. In the beginning, it was the vibrant cartoon drawings that caught my 3-year old mind. In fact, that was the only reason I demanded to hear the story night after night. But it was this that made me long for more, when I already had exactly
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piece he’d done of a red lobster (“Eric Carle”). This is when his illustrating career truly began. Over the years he has not only had numerous successes in his artwork but has even written his own books. He’s most well-known for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar where bright colors, odd shapes, and unique cutouts are used throughout the pages. Carle always had a love for nature; a majority of his books depict animals or plants of some sort. This recurring theme is seen in all the years of his career
different context, which could reveal a new sense. One area in which the possibility of the existence of more than one meaning or interpretation creates tension is literature. "Intention, text, context, reader – what determines meaning? Now the very fact that arguments are made for all four factors shows that meaning is complex and elusive, not something once and f... ... middle of paper ... ...case, especially if we concede that certain things from which we derive meaning were created without
in support of their program Kohl’s Cares, which gives 100 percent of their profit to support health and education initiatives in communities all over the nation. The books The Mixed-Up Chameleon, The Hungry Caterpillar, The Foolish Tortoise, and The Grouchy Ladybug, and plush chameleons, caterpillars, tortoises, and ladybugs can be purchased separately for five dollars each (“Kohl’s Cares,” 2011). On the inside flap of the featured books is a personal message from Carle stating how delighted he is
There was once a very lonely and sad monarch caterpillar. He would wake up every morning alone and cold in the shades of the leaves. As usual, he would check around nervously for danger before he proceeds to look for food. He was an especially picky eater because he would only eat the leaves of a milkweed plant. One morning, he woke to the scorching ray of light blaring upon the lonely caterpillar. He decided to check the flare out when he noticed a string of caterpillars beside him – marching one
important implications for children later in life like the “piggie” rhyme shows children that they can not always get what they want in life and someone will always be better off than you are. 2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is an example of a picture book. The Very Hungry Caterpillar fits into
show at Kingston High School. My theatre career started out small, and then grew exponentially. I wasn’t one of those kids who was the lead in every one of their productions, I was no Caterpillar in the elementary's school of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. No, no, I was one of the leaves that very hungry caterpillar got to munch on.
A. 1. In today’s classroom, children come from various cultural backgrounds and diverse family structures; which makes having access to diverse books a must. The children need to be able to relate to the characters in the book. As a result, having characters that are prominently white, middle class families no longer fit the norm. Authors of various cultural backgrounds are now creating books that show the diversity in today’s society. Families today come in various forms and children need books
ways to relate it to topics learned in previous NSC classes. Before beginning teaching the life cycles of a frog, bumble bee, butterfly/moth, and dragonfly one must become very familiar with the material. So, first of all, study the life cycle of a frog. Looking at a diagram of each life cycle while reading the material will be very helpful. Female frogs first lay jelly-covered eggs in the water. There are thousands of eggs and they take about 10 days to hatch. After hatching, eggs become tiny tadpoles
proverb describes the need for hands on experiences. “Tell me and I forget, Show me and I may remember, Involve me and I will understand”. Dur... ... middle of paper ... ...nce the child participated in a song, he was able to tell me that caterpillars become butterflies. Through studying these theorists and developing my philosophy on child development, I will be able to walk into my own classroom and apply what I’ve learned to a classroom curriculum that assists children in developing to their
your wings and fly” they said, well it’s not that easy. It all started when I was a caterpillar, I wasn’t bothering anybody, I was just minding my own business eating a leaf on the tree. All the sudden I see a couple of birds flying around me. When I noticed them I just wanted to get out if there because my aunt Ruthie was just eaten by a bird. It was a sad time. I stated up to a limb of the tree, but man was I hungry, it was almost time for my metamorphis. The only thing that I cared about was getting
I spent two hours and twenty-five minutes observing Ms. Moses teaching methods. On the first day that I went to the school I got lost trying to find the classroom. The school was set up very different. When I finally got to the classroom I notice that the class had a total of seven students. One of the students was in a wheel chair. That student name is Victor. Another one of the students has a walker, but also has a wheel chair just in
Have you ever thought about eating bugs? What if you eating dinner at a restaurant and the special was a bug ice cream or steak and bug. We should start eating bugs because our population is eating a lot of cows which is causing global warming. What is causing this to happen are cow emissions and more than half a cow is being wasted every day. Cows also produce a lot of greenhouse gases. One way to address this problem is to eat bugs because bugs can solve world hunger. Eating bugs can also
“The more you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you’ll go” (Dr. Seuss).Throughout my childhood and reading Dr. Seuss books this quote was important in my development as a reader and writer. Growing up as an only child my parents wanted to make sure that I had all of the resources I needed to succeed, one being the ability to read and write. The quote by Dr. Seuss was highly regarded by those who wanted me to succeed in life. They wanted me learn to read and
Image: Lewis Carroll Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?' Image: Bessie Pease Gutmann, 1907 So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making