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By reading to the children will help them start understanding language concept. They will be learning new vocabulary and will begin placing pictures with words. By showing the children the pictures and words while reading this story, it will help increase their knowledge of books and how the pictures are related to the words on the page. Also, one of the additional lesson plan ideas will consist of the children creating their own story line about a caterpillar growing into a butterfly. This will help increase the child's ability to comprehend different ideas and strengthen their story-telling skills; which leads us to creative arts. While the children are making their own story line, they will be drawing pictures and narrating their story. They will be drawing the caterpillar, the food they choose and the butterfly. This will be their story, so they will have to be able to use their imagination and creativity in order to produce a story and hopefully every story will be different. When they are finished with their books, I will allow the children to share their stories and read their books to the class.
To involve science in this lesson, I will bring an actual caterpillar and allow the students to watch it develop into a butterfly. As a class, we will make a chart that shows the caterpillar's life cycle. Science curriculum content this lesson will include is observing, classifying, predicting, communicating ideas, and drawing conclusions (HighScope). Children will be observing the caterpillar's changes, classifying which stage the caterpillar is in, predicting how long a caterpillar takes to change into a butterfly, communicating with their classmates, and drawing their own conclusions on what the butterfly will look like.
In order to add the concept of mathematics to this lesson, we will be counting the fruit that the caterpillar consumes throughout the week.
To involve science in this lesson, I will bring an actual caterpillar and allow the students to watch it develop into a butterfly. As a class, we will make a chart that shows the caterpillar's life cycle. Science curriculum content this lesson will include is observing, classifying, predicting, communicating ideas, and drawing conclusions (HighScope). Children will be observing the caterpillar's changes, classifying which stage the caterpillar is in, predicting how long a caterpillar takes to change into a butterfly, communicating with their classmates, and drawing their own conclusions on what the butterfly will look like.
In order to add the concept of mathematics to this lesson, we will be counting the fruit that the caterpillar consumes throughout the week.