Catherine- Wk 5 Post- The Very Hungry Caterpillar

                                                  Week 5 Blog Posting- The Very Hungry Caterpillar

 

This week I read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. I really enjoyed this book and it brought back childhood memories. The Very Hungry Caterpillar book follows a caterpillar as it eats its way through various foods before pupating and emerging as a beautiful butterfly, showing the reader a broad overview of the life cycle of the caterpillar.

 I think this book would be a very good teacher resource in a junior primary classroom as it shows the students how a caterpillar changes into a butterfly in a fun and colourful way. I think students would benefit from the information in this book and it is easy to understand through the use of simple wording and bold illustrations. The book is also interactive as it has different sized pages and has holes in the foods that the caterpillar eats.  The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a very predictable book as it uses repeated sentence structure as it says the number of food, the type of food and continues with ‘but he was still hungry’. This would also be a helpful as it can assist students in learning the days of the week as they are featured throughout the book as the caterpillar eats different foods on different days. The number of foods also increases as the days go by which the students could count along the way.  

 

Catherine