Your job is to now put the remaining food cards in the correct order. You can use the chart to help you remember what the caterpillar ate when. We will put the apple card on the first square on the strip right above where it says first. What food did the caterpillar eat first?” (The apple) Ask: “Can you find the apple card?” After the children answer, say: “Good. Your job is to put the food in the same order in which the caterpillar ate them.” And on these cards are the foods the caterpillar ate. Say: “On this strip, we have the order and the sequence in which the caterpillar ate his food. Show the children the ordinal number strip and the food cards. Step 3: Engage children in lesson activities. Ask: “What was the second thing the caterpillar ate?” (2 pears) Ask: “Who can list all of the food that the caterpillar ate on the 7th day?” (Watermelon, cupcake…) Ask: “What was the last thing the caterpillar ate before he turned into a big, beautiful butterfly?” (One green leaf) Using the information on the chart, ask the children questions using ordinal numbers as a point of reference. When you have finished reading the book, the chart paper should be numbered 1st-7th and have corresponding food items drawn next to the ordinal number.

Continue reading and charting the caterpillar’s eating sequence.

On Monday, he ate through one apple.” Ask: “So what is the first food item the caterpillar eats?” (One apple) On the chart paper, write 1st / first and then draw a picture of one apple.

Read: “He started to look for some food.

We will keep track of the order on our chart paper. Say: “We want to know what is the first piece of food the caterpillar eats, the third food item he eats and the last thing he eats before he becomes a big, beautiful butterfly. Tell the children that while we are reading the book, we are going to keep track of what the caterpillar eats and in what order.

Explain that today you will read The Very Hungry Caterpillar together as a group.

But does anyone remember the 1st snack that the caterpillar ate? How about the 3rd snack the caterpillar ate? The last snack the caterpillar ate?” (The caterpillar eats a lot of food and becomes a big, beautiful butterfly.) Say: “Yes, that’s right. If so, ask those children to recount the events of the book.

Ask if any of the children have read the book before.

Introduce the book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

The very hungry caterpillar butterfly