Welcome!  The goal of Storybook Summer is to spend time reading with your children and engaging them in academic learning.  No matter what the age of your child, he or she will love spending time reading a book with you! The lesson plans posted here are very informal but will give you ideas of activities you can do with your children every day related to the weekly book theme. Don’t feel like you need to do everything on the lesson plan. Go ahead and make revisions, additions, and deletions. Visit your local library and check out the Book of the Week at the library to save money (just remember to return it on time).

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Week One Book of the Week:  The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Monday June 6th
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar together
Sing: Days of the Week song (video to come)
Craft Suggestions: Color a caterpillar, make a caterpillar out of construction paper, make a tissue butterfly with tissue paper and a clothespin
Math: Make a symmetrical butterfly with white paper.  Fold the butterfly in half and open.  Paint one side of the butterfly.  Fold to squish the paint.  Talk about symmetry and how the butterfly sides look like a mirror.

Tuesday June 7th
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar together
Sing: Days of the Week song (video to come)
Social Studies: Create a map of a tree, house, and outside area.  Talk about the relationship of the food in the house to the tree.  Talk about the relationship of the sky to the ground.  For older children have them draw the route the caterpillar took when he crawled to eat his food.  Draw a different path for the butterfly flying around.

Wednesday June 8th
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar together
Sing: Days of the Week song (video to come)
Science: Have an array of foods from the story available.  You can talk about them before the activity if you choose.  Have child close eyes (use a blindfold if necessary).  Have child smell, touch, and taste the foods.  Have child guess what the food is while unable to see it.  For older children have them draw the experience on paper or in a science notebook.

Thursday June 9th
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar together
Sing: Days of the Week song (video to come)
Craft: Create a caterpillar out of 8 circles.  Write the days of the week in its’ own circle.  Make the caterpillar body be in order of the days of the week.  You can substitute numbers for this activity.
Math: Small, Medium, Large.  Print/draw/make index cards or papers with three to five different sizes of butterflies or caterpillars.  Have child order them from largest to smallest then smallest to largest.   Talk about the sizes.

Friday June 10th
Have child read you The Very Hungry Caterpillar while looking at the pages.  If they cannot read encourage them to tell you the story in their own words.
Sing: Days of the Week song
Math: Guessing Jar.  Put some gummy worms (aka caterpillars) in a glass jar or glass cup.  Have the child estimate how many caterpillars are in the glass.  Make a chart with your guess and the child’s guess.  Take the gummy worms out of the glass and count them.   Chart the answer too.

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