Escolinha - March 5, 2010

Boy, I am late posting stuff... Sorry. The Portuguese pre-school was extremely cute and informative. We read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Pop-Up Book

Monica had a handout of all the foods that the caterpillar ate. She found that here
http://www.thevirtualvine.com/theveryhungrycaterpillar.html
She printed them out and then wrote the names of the foods in Portuguese.

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Then they got to created their own caterpillar by using a pen,red puffy balls and pipe cleaners. The craft was cute, easy and so creative. I wish I had thought of that myself. All one has to do is to roll a green pipe cleaner around a pen, glue gun a red puffy ball and then small pieces of fabric or paper for the eyes and antennas. There you have it, a beautiful caterpillar. The kids absolutely love them... and they got to work on their creativity, sense of accomplishment and small motor skills!

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Then we had the kids hold the caterpillar/lagarta and we said every word that the caterpillar ate and the child had to move the caterpillar to the appropriate food in the paper. So, this is a great vocabulary building activity.