The Hungry Caterpillar 🐛
In Speakid we love teaching and learning through stories 📖 and one of our favourites is 'The Hungry Caterpillar'!!🐛
The poor caterpillar is very veeery hungry in this story and uses all energies to find food: apples, pears, strawberries...
And, what about you? Are you hungry?! Are you staaaarving?😖
Let's see what's the caterpillar's favourite fruit🧐 Is it...apples?🍎🍏
There are many online resources related to this story but here is our selection designed especially for you to enjoy at home 🏠:
1) This is a great animated film based on The Hungry Caterpillar's story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY&t=73s
2) If you prefer 'old school', here is the story read aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btFCtMhF3iI
Related to the story, the Speakid Team prepared some related activities and worsheets for our students that we would like to share with everyone:
- The Hungry Caterpillar food diary for our JUNIOR and TEENS. This worksheet will help them review the days of the week and food vocabulary :)
jr and teen food diary The-Very-Hungry-C
Download • 1.01MB
- For KIDS and TODS (okay, and JUNIORS and TEENS if they are not 'too old' for that!) this is a fun craft to create their own caterpillar, a veeery veeery long one
all ages make-a-caterpillar-activity-eng
Download • 699KB
Parents...we would never forget you! If you are eager to know why this story became so important in children's book repertoire all over the globe, have a look at this great article published in The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/03/very-hungry-caterpillar-50th-anniversary/585271/
Enjoy the fun 💛
With love,
The Speakid Team
