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 * Jeanette Mercedes**


 * Aim:** YouTube video (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) and the book titled "__The Very Hungry Caterpillar__." by Eric Carle. To introduce several concepts: story sequence, create art work, and counting.


 * Grade Level: K - 1


 * Standards:**
 * New York State ELA Standard (elementary) 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, and 4.1
 * New York State SL Standard: The Living Environment (Standard 4)
 * New York Mathematics Standards 3.1 and 3.7 The Arts Standards 1 and 2
 * National **– TABLE 6.3. LIFE SCIENCE STANDARDS**


 * Primary Resources:**

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 * Uploaded Lesson Plan:**

This lesson plan is designed to use the Eric Carle book [|The Very Hungry Caterpillar] and to integrate Language Arts, Literature, Math, Science, and Art.


 * Lesson Plan Summary:**

To introduce the concept of sequence or story order. this will be a great lesson plan for children.They will understand that sequence helps us to comprehend the story or situation. Also the awareness that events occur in sequential order can be related to each other by helping to bring meaning to a story. After I finish explaining they will draw a picture of what happen first, middle, end of the story. Students will be able to sequence any set of events in the correct order


 * Students will be able to use the concept of ordinal numbers to help organize story events.
 * Students will be learn the meaning of new vocabulary words.
 * Students will listen for a purpose.
 * Students will use a graphic organizer to arrange story events.
 * Students will summarize story events.
 * Students will make their own foldable to illustrate the patterns of the life cycle of a butterfly.
 * Students will be able to identify the changes that a caterpillar makes when becoming a butterfly as well as discuss what they have witnessed.
 * Students will be able to create their own unique butterfly art using materials found around the house. Students will also be able to illustrate their sentences based on pictures of butterflies.

Estimated Time: **About 30 minutes**
 * Session: Day One**

Students must be able to listen to a story and then be able to not only recreate the story, but to put it in the correct order. Sequencing is a very important skill that the children need to practice often in order to master.
 * Materials Needed:**

Procedure: The children will gather in the rug area.
 * **You tube Video: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, graphic organizer, pencil, drawing paper, scissors, glue, crayons,**


 * First, connect to prior knowledge by asking the children to tell what they know about caterpillars. Ask them to describe what caterpillars are like and have they ever seen one.
 * I will show a video of the story of __The Very Hungry Caterpillar__ on my notebook computer, the students will sit and listen first, and then the story will be read together. Show the book cover and discuss what the book could be about.
 * Define butterfly, cocoon, and caterpillar.
 * Next, students will return to their desk.
 * Then I will then ask the students to summarize the story in their own words and then I will write down what the students are say towards the chart paper with a marker.
 * The teacher will then read the list of randomly assigned events from the chart paper and she will ask the student in what order or number that goes beside the event sequence that occurred within the story and so on.
 * When the events are numbered in the sequence order in which they occurred, the teacher will read aloud the list of the events again but this time she will read them in the correct order.
 * The teacher will then ask if there are any questions. If there are no questions, she will move on by asking the children to draw a picture of pattern of the life cycle of a butterfly.
 * Students begin the drawings. Construction papers are handed out.
 * During this time, walk around the room observing the students' progress. If a student is having a difficult time with the drawing, use the chart, help individual and motivate them to remember.


 * Session: Day Two**

Estimated Time: **About 30 minutes**


 * Independent Assignment:**

Using the materials gathered, students will complete these handouts based on the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."


 * http://www.makinglearningfun.com/Activities/HungryCaterpillar/VHCatTrueFalseCount/VHCatTrueFalse-20.gif
 * http://www.makinglearningfun.com/Activities/HungryCaterpillar/VHC-ColorbyNumber.gif.

Procedure: After reading the story out-loud in the rug area, students will return back to their desks.

> a clothespin on the smiley face. If the numbers don't match, they will clip the clothespin on the sad face.
 * First they will follow the instructions and identify the number at the top of the card.
 * Next they will count the items of food that the caterpillar is going to eat.
 * Last they will decided if the number of items of food and the number on the card match, so they can clip
 * Right after they finish this exercise, they will use their crayons to color the butterfly.
 * They will use the key as a guide to color each section.


 * Session: Day Three**

Estimated Time: **About 15 minutes**

__Days of the Week Sequencing Cards__: Print, cut and laminate cards. Students will put the cards in order from Sunday to Saturday.
 * Group Practice:**


 * http://www.makinglearningfun.com/Activities/HungryCaterpillar/VHCatDaysWeek/VHCatDaysWeek-1.gif
 * http://www.makinglearningfun.com/Activities/HungryCaterpillar/VHCatDaysWeek/VHCatDaysWeek-2.gif
 * http://www.makinglearningfun.com/Activities/HungryCaterpillar/VHCatDaysWeek/VHCatDaysWeek-3.gif
 * http://www.makinglearningfun.com/Activities/HungryCaterpillar/VHCatDaysWeek/VHCatDaysWeek-4.gif


 * Procedure: After the students finish watching the You-tube video,**


 * They will continue to stay in the rug area.
 * The cards will be place in the white board.
 * I will ask the students to help me put the cards in order. I will play with the cards to make the lesson fun.
 * Based on their understanding they will tell me what happen First, Next and Last of the story.


 * Session: Day Five**

Estimated Time: **About 30 minutes**

Here is what I will need: ice-cream popicsle stick Heavy paper 6" (150 mm) piece of pipe cleaner, folded in half Markers or crayons Scissors and glue
 * Toilet-paper tube**


 * **Photograph of caterpillars, a butterfly and chrysalis**


 * Procedure:**

1. Ask the students what they know about butterflies. Have they ever seen one? Have they ever touched one? What did it look like? Was it colorful? 2. Ask the students if they know what the butterfly was before it was a butterfly? 3. What do caterpillars look like? How do you think they got to be caterpillars? What do they feel like? Are they furry? Slimy? 4. How does a caterpillar turn into a butterfly? 5. Discuss or show a picture of a chrysalis and a butterfly. 6. The book [|The Very Hungry Caterpillar] by Eric Carle can be used. 7. Explained that the children will create chrysalis that will become a butterfly through Art. 8. Trace a butterfly for the students to cut out and color, tell the students to make both halves look the same. Put a small hole at the top of the butterfly’s head. 9. Have the students Color the toilet paper tube to look like a chrysalis. 10. Take pipe cleaner and shape it like the letter "V". Assist the students as they will need to put one point through the little hole in the butterfly’s head and then twist it to look like antennae. 11. Have the students glue the butterfly to one end of the tongue depressor or ice-cream pop stick. Let the glue dry. 12. Curl the butterfly’s wings and slide it into the chrysalis. 13. Students can play with their butterflies by pulling on the stick to make it look like it’s coming out of its chrysalis.

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 * Lesson Plan Template Source:** http://www.sobolsoft.com/wordteacherlesson/


 * ERIC article summaries and APA Citation:**

>> **Article Summary:** In this report the State education departments, in discussions with Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southeast, identified low reading achievement as a critical issue for their students and expressed an interest in identifying effective strategies to promote the foundational skills in young students that might improve reading achievement. ===Article Summary: Ensuring early literacy success is a wise investment because literacy skills are essential to success in all school subjects--literature, social sciences, natural science, and mathematics. There is a strong research base for how children learn to read, how to prevent failure, and how to intervene when reading difficulties occur. This issue of "Research Points" discusses the aspects of a successfu l literacy policy and explains how reading a lot begets reading skill. A list of suggestions for policymakers on how they can promote early literacy success is presented. An 18-item bibliography is included. ===
 * 1) **APA Citation:** **Goodson, Barbara, Wolfe, Anne; Bell, Steve; Turner, Herb; Finney, Pamela;** National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance ,http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED512900.pdf
 * 1) **APA Citation:** [|Ensuring Early Literacy Success. Research Points. Volume 6, Issue 1, Winter 2009] (ED508311)

Lesson Plans:
> **Lesson Plan Summary:** The lesson is design to introduce to students the concept of sequence through a short story from beggining, middle, and end. The students will watch a story called The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. The students will learn about to recognize and connect word patterns. The students will also learn the patterns of the life cycle of a butterfly. > > **Lesson Plan Summary:** This lesson is designed to introduce__All About Butterflies__in a comprehensive on-line hypertext activities. It is intented for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. The students will learn to identify the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle. They will also create a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis with school art materials and household materials. > > **Lesson Plan Summary:** This link offers lesson plan that I'll able to use for a class lesson. It is so important for students to be able to listen to a story and then be able to not only recreate the story, but to put it in the correct order. Sequencing is a very important skill that the children need to practice often in order to master.
 * 1) **Lesson Plan Link:** Sequencing The Very Hungary Caterpillar
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 * 1) **Lesson Plan Link:** The Very Hungary Caterpillar Ideas

Assessment Questions
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Sequence Sentences: He is a beautiful butterfly. The chrysalis forms. A tiny caterpillar emerges from the egg. The egg lay on the leaf. 1. 2. 3. 4.


 * Assessment Question For Language Arts: **