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Lesson Plan (Language Arts - The Very Hungry Caterpillar)

It's a lesson plan for year 3 pupils to enjoy the story through some interesting activities. Hope it's helpful~

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Lesson Plan (Language Arts - The Very Hungry Caterpillar)

It's a lesson plan for year 3 pupils to enjoy the story through some interesting activities. Hope it's helpful~

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Ng Jia Ying
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Focus

: Language Arts

Date

: 19th August 2015

Time

: 60 minutes

Class

: Year 3 Pupils

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Content Standard

4.3 By the end of 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to plan, organize and
produce creative work for enjoyment.
Learning standard

4.3.1 Able to produce simple creative works with guidance based on stories,
4.3.2 Able to perform with guidance based on stories.
Skills Focus

: Listening, Speaking

Integrated Skills

: Drawing, Music, Movement

Cross-curricular elements: Knowledge acquisition, multiple intelligence (visualspatial, body-kinaesthetic, linguistic, logical), constructivism, contextual learning,
creativity
Values

: Collective responsibility, helping one another

Behavioural objectives: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to


1. sequence the story order by arranging the food the caterpillar eats in correct order.
2. retell the story by singing out the story with guidance
3. perform the non-locomotor movement through the picture cues correctly
4. state the life cycle of a butterfly correctly through a flow map and a song.
Teaching aids

: Colour paper strips, ice-cream sticks, The Very Hungry

Caterpillar Bog Book, Pictures of different fruits and food, colour papers, cut-outs of

newspaper, magazine, Skip to My Lou karaoke version, picture (Pupils collage art
work),flash cards of movement, power point slide, Itsy Bitsy Spider karaoke version
Pupils Previous knowledge: Days in a week, fruits, food

Steps/Time

Content

Teacher-Pupils Activities

Teaching
Aids/CCE/Values/

Set Induction ( 5

Paper Fold

1. Teacher distributes the

Comments
Teaching aids:

mins)

Caterpillar

colour paper strips and sticks

- Two strips of colour

to the pupils.

papers with different

2. Teacher tells the pupils that

colour for each pupils

they are going to fold out a

- Two ice-cream sticks

caterpillar.

for each pupils

3. Teacher shows the pupils


steps by steps (Refer to

MI:

Appendix A) on folding out the

- Visual-Spatial

caterpillar.

- Body-Kinaesthetic

4. Teacher asks the pupils to


decorate the caterpillar by
drawing the eyes and
antennae.
Developmental Stages
Step 1 ( 15 mins)
Story-Telling- The

1. Teacher gets the pupils to sit

Teaching aids:

Very Hungry

in a circle.

- The Very Hungry

Caterpillar

2. Teacher introduces the story

Caterpillar Bog Book

by getting the pupils to look at

- Caterpillar craft made

**One plum, yum

the cover. Teacher asks the

by pupils during set

Two plums, yum yum

pupils to guess what the story

induction stage

is about.
Chanting:

3. Teacher starts to tell the

CCE:

(Monday)

story (Refer to Appendix B).

- Knowledge

One apple, yum

Teacher gets the pupils to

acquisition

(Tuesday)

chant with the caterpillar craft

- Contextual learning

One pear, yum.

every time after she says He

Two pears, yum yum.

ate through the food/fruit.

(Wednesday)

MI:
- Body-Kinaesthetic

One plum, yum.

- Linguistic

Two plums, yum yum.


Three plums, yum
yum yum.
** Pupils use fingers
to show numbering.
** Pupils do thumbsup while saying yum
yum.
Actions:

4. Teacher also gets the pupils

- Move their caterpillar

to do some actions while she

craft from both sides

tells the story.

to the middle when


they hear the word
caterpillar
- Rub their stomach
when they hear the
word hungry.
- Move their hands
like butterflies flap
their wings when they
hear the word
butterfly.
Step 2 ( 20 mins)

Collage Art for the

1. Teacher divides the class

Teaching Aids:

Caterpillars food

into groups of three.

- Pictures of different

2. Teacher distributes different

fruits and food

Food/fruit List

pictures with different fruits or

- colour papers, cut-

- apple

food (refer to Appendix C) to

outs of newspaper,

- pear

each group.

magazine

- plum

3. Teacher explains to the

- Skip to My Lou

- strawberries

pupils that they are going to get

karaoke version

- oranges

some materials such as colour

- chocolate cake

papers, cut-outs of newspaper, MI:

- ice-cream cone

magazine. They will cut or tear

- Visual-spatial

- pickle

the papers into small pieces

- Logical

- swiss cheese

and them onto the fruit or food

- salami

they get.

- lollipop

4.

- cherry pie

colour

- sausage

newspaper, magazine to each

- Creativity and

- cupcake

group.

innovation

- watermelon

5. Teacher asks the pupils to

- leaf

start their work.

Values:

Food Sequence

6. After finishing the collage art,

- Collective

teacher asks the pupils to

responsibility

arrange their work according to

- Helping one another

Teacher

then

papers,

distributes
cut-outs

of

the story.
7. Teacher asks each group to
send a representative to stick
their work onto the blackboard.
8. Teacher checks the answer
with the whole class.
Sing Out the Story

9. By using the pupils work as


cues, teacher gets the pupils to

Song Lyrics

sing out the story by using the

I am a caterpillar,

tune of the story Skip to My

crawl, crawl, crawl.

Lou. (refer to Appendix D)

(hand movement of

10.

crawling)

class to sing and do the hand

I am a caterpillar,

movement of crawling, eating

crawl, crawl, crawl.

and flapping of wings, and then

(hand movement of

she points to certain groups to

crawling)

continue singing the song.

I eat name of food,


eat, eat, eat.
(hand movement of
eating)
I am a butterfly now,
(hand movement of
flapping wings)
Yeah!

Teacher gets the whole

CCE:
- Constructivism

Step 3 ( 15 mins)

I Move Like

Teaching Aids:

Caterpillars and

-Picture (Pupils

Butterflies

collage art work)


- Flash cards of

Caterpillar Stretch:

1. Teacher asks the pupils to

- Sit in a pike position

do

and hold on to feet or

stretches.

ankles.

demonstrates and the pupils

- Slowly bend the

repeat after teacher.

caterpillar

and

movement

butterfly

Teacher

first

MI: Body-Kinaesthetic
Values:

knee and bring feet

- Collective

towards the body and

responsibility

back out again.


Butterfly Stretch:
- Put the bottom of
your feet together and
gently push your
knees towards the
floor.
(refer to Appendix E)
2.

After

finish

stretching,

teacher divides the class into


groups of five.
3. Teacher pastes a flash card
that shows a movement (refer
to Appendix F) on the five
selected five collage art (apple,
pear, plum, strawberry, orange)
the class has done during the
previous stage.
4. Teacher explains to the
pupils that each group will take
turns to do some actions with
the pattern of a caterpillar or a
butterfly

according

to

the

pictures given by teacher. The


amount

of

each

movement

depends on the amount of the

fruit/food in the picture. For


example:

If the flash card

Jump in Place is pasted on


the picture pear which has
two pears, the group has to
jump in place for two times.
5. Teacher explains to the
pupils

that

the

group

that

performs the correct actions


within the shortest period will
win the competition.
Closure ( 5 mins)

Life Cycle of a

1. Teacher gets the pupils to

Butterfly

recap the life cycle of a

Consolidation

butterfly.

Teaching aids:

2. Teacher invites the pupils to

- power point slide

write out the life cycle of a

- Itsy Bitsy Spider

butterfly using a flow map (refer

karaoke version

to Appendix G).
3. Teacher ends the lesson by
getting the pupils to sing the
Caterpillar Song. (refer to
Appendix G ) Teacher teaches
the pupils to sing by using the
tune of the song Itsy Bitsy
Spider. (refer to Appendix H)

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