Eric Carle

Last week we started learning about Eric Carle. I decided with this study we would explore his books and find nonfiction books that connect to creatures related. I know it's not butterfly season but I felt like I needed to read more non-fiction. It's really easy to find so many connections to his books.

We started with The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar~Caterpillars and Butterflies
The Grouchy Ladybug~Ladybugs

We listed things we knew about butterflies or what we thought we knew.
 We went back revised our circle map and I had the kids make illustrations.

we will soon fill this sheet in

Labeling a Butterfly

These are the non-fiction text features we talked about using this book. I hope to have the students make convention books after vacation.

This is my new favorite book!! I took this book out of the library without even reading it and was so surprised at how much I LOVE it!! It lead so nicely into making a bubble map.

working with a friend they illustrated what the word meant from the story

The kids love moving to these words

We responded to the questions
My hungry caterpillar_____
I think these came out great!! They really incorporated things we learned from our non-fiction read aloud. 

is waiting

grows

eats

is growing into a cocoon...which we talked about how that is not true!

is hatching

scary...we learned that caterpillars scare enemies

We did a reading response to the Grouchy Lady Bug and we had an introduction to time.

ericcarle:myhungrycaterpillare The Grouchy Ladybug