Weekly Vocabulary Challenge – The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Date: 11th May 2020 @ 8:07am

This week we are looking at one of my favourite stories. It is about a caterpillar who ‘pops’ out of a tiny egg, he then eats lots of food and builds himself a cocoon. At the end of the story the caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly!

Can you guess which story it is? That’s right, it’s ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

We will also be using this book in our Maths learning later in the week too.

Click on the link to watch Miss Heritage talk about the fruits and read and the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

In the story the caterpillar eats lots of different fruit and foods.

Can you talk about the different types of fruit in the story and use words to describe what they are like?

Use the Superhero Speaking Cape Symbols from class to help you (see photo below)

Pause the video: Can you use shape words to describe the different fruits and food the caterpillar ate? 

Shape Vocabulary: describe the shapes – round, curved, tall, pointy, wide, short

Pause the video: Can you use texture words to describe the pictures? 

Texture Vocabulary – soft, smooth, bumpy, silky, rough, shiny

Challenge:  Your challenge this week, is to use our ‘Speaking Superhero’ vocabulary to look at and explore different fruits. (You may have some different fruits from the story at home, that’s fine too!)

Have a look at the fruits you have, name them, talk about how it looks and feels, then use words to describe what they are like.

Look carefully, you may be able to use different words to describe the fruit when it has its peel on and off e.g. a banana.

Does your fruit have pips, or seeds or a stone? Or does it have spikey leaves like a pineapple? Can you describe what it is like on the outside and compare how it is different to the inside?

You could be creative with your fruits. Maybe you could use your fruit to make a fruit salad or fruit kababs or even try creating a very hungry caterpillar! Have a look at the pictures below for some ideas!

Have fun and make sure you send in photos or videos of your learning to:

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk