Home learning Keeping healthy and Growing day 3

Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 8:37am

Understanding the World

Today we are working on our Understanding the World area of learning.

Before you start, why don't you have a try warming up with Joe Wicks?

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Today we will be looking at the change in the caterpillar and then the changes we can see in ourselves

First of all, look at the pictures of the caterpillar throughout the story.

What did he start as? What did he grow in to? What did he do throughout the story to grow into a butterfly?

Can you show your child the video of The Very Hungry Caterpillar again, encourage them to look at the different parts of the lifecycle of a caterpillar.

Why and how do they think that has happened? 

If you are able to, can you show pictures of yourself as a baby, child, teenager, if not is there anyone else in the family that you could show their growth and change through pictures?

2

Look at the way they have changed by looking at their baby pictures.

What changes can they notice?

Do a hand print using paint or draw around their hand and then do the same to yours. What do they notice about the two?

Do they think they will grow as big as their parent or stay as they are?

What will help them to grow?

Can they draw a picture of themselves as a baby and then a picture of themselves now?

3.

Now that you have seen what you looked like as a baby and what your family looked like, we now need to think about the caterpillar and what they would grow into.

Do you think you could make me a lifecycle of a caterpillar?

You can be as creative as you want. You can draw it, paint it, build it or make it.

I would like to see an egg, a very small caterpillar, a fully grown caterpillar, a cocoon and a butterfly.

I can’t wait to see all your creations.

4. If you would like to have a go at making an exploratory tray, you could use cucumber, tomatoes and raisins to create a caterpillar, go on the hunt for some leaves and twigs and make a habitat for your caterpillar to live in.

5

Write your name and measure yourself with a piece of string, cut the string and tie it ina bow with your name and the date on. Then place it in your memory box