This week at Nursery, we have been sequencing the lifecycle of a caterpillar as a development to our learning about The Very Hungry Caterpillar story. We spent time looking closely at the butterfly house and talked together about what we noticed. We were all quick to spot the life-cycle stage – a cocoon, just like the hungry caterpillar stayed in once he had eaten all of the food! We learnt that it is also known as a chrysalis. By recalling the story, we were all confident when making our predictions about what might happen next – beautiful butterflies! We all knew that the cocoons were once caterpillars to complete the lifecycle sequence.

We enjoyed joining in with some yoga sequences to tell the lifecycle of a caterpillar. We wiggled and stretched in the tummy time position like caterpillars, curled up small into little cocoons and then practised moving our legs like butterfly wings. We also used yoga poses and movements to retell the hungry caterpillar story, showing great skill in patting both our tummy and head to show when we were hungry!

This half-term, we have been learning the song ‘There’s a tiny caterpillar on a leaf’. The song tells the story of the lifecycle of a caterpillar and has really helped us to sequence the lifecycle for ourselves! We have all enjoyed singing along and joining in with the hand actions, showing great confidence when performing!

You could go on a local walk to see if you can find any other minibeasts in the world around us. We would love to see some photographs on Tapestry!