Home learning

Home Learning 

This focused activity has provided a range of learning opportunities including:

• How we read and share books.
• Developing and understanding that print conveys meaning
• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• To be able to describes main story settings, events and principal characters.

To extend these learning opportunities we invite you to share an activity with your child at home

Parent/carer needs to:

• Ask your child about the book ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’.
• Using the picture of the book find out what your child can remember about the story. 
• Encourage your child to talk about the story and what happens to the caterpillar
• Encourage your child to recall what happened in the story. Please use the pictures on the next page to prompt the children.

Child needs to:

• Talk to you about the story
• Talk about what happens in the story
• Talk about the life cycle of a caterpillar

Extension:

You can extend your child’s learning by:

• By making a visit to your local farm, zoo, sea life centre or butterfly farm to find out more about animals and mini beasts
• Visit your local library to find out more about butterflies