The Hungry Caterpillar

This half term our Topic is Minibeasts. A favourite with both children and adults alike. We began our topic with The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

The children love how the tiny caterpillar becomes fatter, then changes into a beautiful butterfly. The story lends itself to lots of sequencing, counting and language work. To compliment our Minibeast topic we have ordered pots of tiny caterpillars from this company over the last few years-Insect Lore  and  released many beautiful butterflies into our Nursery garden.
Our caterpillars are wrapped safely in their cocoons and we are waiting patiently (as patiently as 3 year olds can be) for our new butterflies.