Storytime: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Storytime with Ms. Piper

October 23, 2009A. W. Jones

EC/PK/K

The Fuzzy Caterpillar

(Tune: Itsy Bitsy Spider)The fuzzy caterpillar(wiggle pointer finger)

Curled up on a leaf(use other hand as leaf)

Spun her little chrysalis(spin finger and point to bottom of hand like a chrysalis)

And then fell fast asleep.(use both hands together beside face)

While she was sleeping She dreamed that she could fly,

(open each arm one at a time like a wing)

And later when she woke up She was a butterfly!

(flap wings like a butterfly)

The Butterfly Cycle(Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Hatch, hatch little egg,I’m so very small.Teeny tiny caterpillar,You can’t see me at all.

Crawl, caterpillar, crawl, Munching on a leaf.Crawling, munching, crawling, munching,Eat and eat and eat.

Form, form a chrysalis,I’m a different shape;Hanging by a silken threadUntil I can escape.

Rest, rest, chrysalisWhile I change inside;Now at last by time has comeTo be a butterfly.Stretch, stretch, pretty wings,It’s a special day;Soon they will be strong enoughFor me to fly away.

Fly, fly, butterfly,Fly from flower to tree;Find a place to lay my eggsSo they can grow like me.

Eric Carle Illustrations

http://www.eric-carle.com/slideshow_collage.html

Collage Craft Create your own

butterfly!!

Real Butterflies!!

Bibliography• Barnes & Nobles (n.d.) Waiting for wings. Retrieved October 22, 2009 from

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Waiting-for-Wings/Lois-Ehlert/e/9780152026080/?itm=1&USRI=waiting+for+wings• Barnes & Nobles (n.d.) . The case of the missing caterpillar: A first look at the life cycle of a butterfly. Retrieved October 22,

2009 from http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=the+case+of+the+missing+caterpillar&box=the%20case%20of%20the%20missing%20caterpillar&pos=-1

• Carle, E. (n.d.) . The very hungry caterpillar . Retrieved October 22, 2009 from http://www.eric-carle.com/ECbooks.html#anchor733548

• Carle, E. (n.d.). How I created collage illustrations for my book mister seahorse. Retrieved October 22, 2009 from http://www.eric-carle.com/slideshow_collage.html

• Carle, E. (1969). The very hungry caterpillar. New York: Penguin Group.• Elhert, L. (2001). Waiting for wings. New York: Harcourt Children’s Books.• Godwin, S. (2005). The case of the missing caterpillar: A first look at the life cycle of a butterfly . New York: Compass Point

Books.• Iram & James (n.d.). Caterpillars, butterflies. Retrieved October 20, 2009 from

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems26.html