Step 8 Then we play the pantomime. We tell children that they are caterpillars are going to transform into butterflies. We give directions and they make the movements. Be an egg. (Children bend, their ankles and form the shape of an egg) Wiggle like a caterpillar (Children move like caterpillars) Go to sleep, little caterpillar (They pretend they enter a cocoon to sleep) Wake up, beautiful butterfly (They pretend they wake up and pop out of the cocoon) Fly, butterfly (They pretend they are flying) Step 9 We can make the life cycle of a butterfly on a paper plate together with the children. We explain to the children that they have to divide the plate into four parts and use a rice grain (or a bean) for an egg and different kinds of pasta for the caterpillar, the cocoon and the butterfly. Then, children use their markers to colour the pasta/plate. Finally, they show their plate and say: is an egg. This is a caterpillar. This is a “This cocoon. This is a beautiful butterfly”. We can also ask questions like: colour is “What the butterfly? And the cocoon?”, etc. OPTIONAL STEPS: We divide the class into groups and ask each one of them to make their own booklet about a hungry animal. We give them A4-sized sheets of paper to make the cover of the booklet and draw the food their animal eats. Each member of the group makes one or two pages of the booklet. The pages can be cut with a hole puncher and tied with a ribbon. The groups present their booklets to the class, which can then be hung with clothes pegs in a corner of the class and be seen and admired by everyone. In one of the following lessons, we narrate the of the hungry caterpillar again and show the video of the story. (). We can also make crafts on the transformation of the caterpillar into a butterfly
Step 8 Then we play the pantomime. We tell children that they are caterpillars are going to transform into butterflies. We give directions and they make the movements. Be an egg. (Children bend, their ankles and form the shape of an egg) Wiggle like a caterpillar (Children move like caterpillars) Go to sleep, little caterpillar (They pretend they enter a cocoon to sleep) Wake up, beautiful butterfly (They pretend they wake up and pop out of the cocoon) Fly, butterfly (They pretend they are flying) Step 9 We can make the life cycle of a butterfly on a paper plate together with the children. We explain to the children that they have to divide the plate into four parts and use a rice grain (or a bean) for an egg and different kinds of pasta for the caterpillar, the cocoon and the butterfly. Then, children use their markers to colour the pasta/plate. Finally, they show their plate and say: “This is an egg. This is a caterpillar. This is a cocoon. This is a beautiful butterfly”. We can also ask questions like: “What colour is the butterfly? And the cocoon?”, etc. OPTIONAL STEPS: We divide the class into groups and ask each one of them to make their own booklet about a hungry animal. We give them A4-sized sheets of paper to make the cover of the booklet and draw the food their animal eats. Each member of the group makes one or two pages of the booklet. The pages can be cut with a hole puncher and tied with a ribbon. The groups present their booklets to the class, which can then be hung with clothes pegs in a corner of the class and be seen and admired by everyone. In one of the following lessons, we narrate the of the hungry caterpillar again and show the video of the story. (). We can also make crafts on the transformation of the caterpillar into a butterfly
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