Home learning pack 5

The learning resources in homework pack 1 and 2 are the fundamentals of learning that children

should achieve in reception year. This learning pack is an enhancement pack that is based on the

book “Very Hungry Caterpillar” that we would have been covering at school. The aim of this is to

develop children knowledge and understanding of the world while practicing their reading, writing

and maths skills

Please follow the link for “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. Or use the story prompts below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY

In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf. One Sunday morning the warm sun came up. POP!

Out of the egg came a very tiny and very hungry caterpillar

He started to look for some food. On Monday he ate through one apple. But he was still hungry.

On Tuesday he ate through 2 pears, but he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate through 3 plums,

but he was still hungry.

On Thursday he ate through 4 strawberries, but he was still hungry. On Friday he ate through 5

oranges, but he was still hungry.

On Saturday he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream, one pickle, one slice of swiss

cheese, one piece of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake and one

slice of watermelon. That night he had a stomachache!

The next day was Sunday again. The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf and after that he felt

much better. Now he wasn’t a hungry caterpillar anymore and he wasn’t a little caterpillar

anymore. He was a big fat caterpillar!

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks.

Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and……..he was a beautiful butterfly!!!

Once children are familiar with the story of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” then please try the

activities listed below. The activities below would be best done in small sections over the next few

weeks. The vital part to all the learning activities listed below are the discussions that you have with

your child and the research that you will do.

Story work:

After reading the story several times can children recall what the caterpillar ate? Can they

name the four stages of his life cycle? And talk about them (egg, caterpillar, cocoon and

butterfly)

Can your child tell the story back to you by looking through the book/ reading the words?

The more you read it to them and the more they will be able to “read” it back to you and the

better their language will become. You can cut the pictures out and help your child to put

them in order, you can tell they story as you do this.

Help your child to make a mini book, see below. This will make a short 6-page book, you can

make the books longer by adding more books into the middle section. You can stick the

pictures in from the story or children can draw their own pictures and then write sentences

underneath for each picture. It is better to spread the writing out over a few days, rather

than try and do it all in one go. Ensure that you encourage finger spaces, capital letters and

full stops.

Can they use their mini book to tell the story to you, their sibling, or their teddy? It would be

lovely to see some videos of children telling the story with their own story book. Please

email them to iqra.earlyyears@iqra.bradford.sch.uk

Food Work

Complete the worksheet below by reading the food names and matching them to the

pictures

Can you help your child to make a fruit salad for all the family, using the fruits in the story?

Help your child to cut up the fruit and remember to wash hands and foods before you start

and keep utensils and chopping surfaces clean. Can they say which is there favourite fruit,

would they like to add other fruits to their fruit salad. You could even make fruit kebabs and

then drizzle chocolate over them!!

Take a range of foods out of your cupboard/ fridge and can you child help sort them into

healthy and unhealthy food. Help them to discover food labels as shown below. Show them

that the colour green on food labels means that the food is good for you, and that the colour

red means it is not healthy. Use the labels to help sort lots of different foods in your house.

Tell the children we can have a few items of food with a red label as a treat, but that we

should not have too many. What would happen to our body if only had food which are bad

for us?? Can you find a food label where all the colours are green and can you find a food

label where all the colours are red?

Help your child learn about different food groups. Can they complete the picture below?

The words you need are dairy, protein, carbohydrate, fruit, vegetables, fats . Explain that

this picture how much we should eat of each food. If you look at the biggest part of the

pyramid it shows fruit and vegetables , this is what we should eat the most of each day,

where as at the top of the pyramid it has fats, and we should eat the least of this. Can your

childmake a food pyramid for all the food that they eat in one day and then discuss how

healthy their day has been.

Thinking about what they have learnt about healthy foods can you child design a healthy

packed lunch. They can draw their own or they can cut out the images below.

Butterfly work

Butterflies are symmetrical, this means they are the same on both sides. Can you cut out

the butterflies below, then cut them in half, muddle them up and try to match them back up

again.

Can you colour in the butterflies below? Make sure the wings are symmetrical

What else can you find that is symmetrical? Have a look around your house and garden and

see what you can find that is symmetrical. Some of your teddy bears, toys and furniture

might be symmetrical.

Can you make a big butterfly, what could you use? See some ideas below

Can you find out about these different butterflies? Can you use the picture below to write a

simple description about each butterfly?

Caterpillars

Can you make some caterpillar, you could use a toilet roll and paint, an egg box or make a

paper chain. Can you make 2 different caterpillars a small one like the beginning of the story

and a big fat one like the end of the story? Look at the pictures below for some ideas.

Can you make a caterpillar with a repeated pattern? Can you complete the ones below and

can you make up some of your own?

Can you find out about these caterpillars? Can you use the pictures to write a simple

description about each one?

Life cycle work

Can you help your child to learn about the life cycle of a caterpillar? There is a lovely story

on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1S8WzwLPlM

And this is a real life clip of the life cycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jivWeOrCaeI

If you do not have access to the internet then you can use the pictures below

1.The butterfly lays her eggs onto the leaf

2.The caterpillar hatches and begin to eat the plant so it can start to grow

3.The caterpillar undergoes a process called metamorphosis inside its chrysalis where it is

rapidly changing

4.The fully formed butterfly emerges, dries it’s wings and then flies off to seek out a mate

Help your child to cut out the pictures of the caterpillar life cycle and stick them in the

correct order. Once they have done this can they write a simple sentence for each picture?

Children love to watch caterpillars grow, develop and change into butterflies. If you have

some money to spare then here is the link to the company that we would use to get

caterpillars from https://www.insectlore.co.uk/butterflies/live-butterfly-kits.html. Please be

warned that delivery is taking a while at the moment, before you order anything!

World work

Have a look in your garden and local park, how many different types of butterflies can you

find? What other mini beats can you find in your garden. Try looking under some flowerpots

or stones, looking on leaves or on bushes or around some plants and flowers. You could

draw a picture of what you find, or take a photograph and then research them when you get

home

Can you make a model of a mini beast. You could use playdough or empty cardboard boxes

and tubes. Empty yoghurt pots or plastic bottles could also be use. Maybe you could make

a butterfly, a worm, a spider or a lady bird.

Below are some animals that you might find. Can you find some facts out about each mini

beats and can you pretend to move like one

Below are some of our favourite songs that we would sing when we learn about the very hungry

caterpillar, can you learn them at home?

Maths work: can you complete the sheets below:

Can you put the caterpillars out and then put them in size order, staring with shortest, then

short, then long, then longer and finally longest. Please make sure you use the correct

vocabulary with children to describe length

We hope you enjoy doing this work and have lots of fun. If you need any help please email

us at: iqra.earlyyears@iqra.bradford.sch.uk