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Caterpillar to Butterfly
Week 1
This section has a planned schedule for your
week 1 “Caterpillar to Butterfly” theme.
All sheets are in ordered and label for each day the
sheets can be used. Print up the number of sheets
you need each day. Worksheets are theme related
and also include the letter B, number 1, shape circle
and color blue.
Print up sheets on regular copy paper. For better
durability, you can use card stock. Use your
imagination when doing worksheets – use markers,
colored pencils, paint, paint daubers, etc.
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If Caterpillar to Butterfly is your
first disk you have purchased from
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print up the following letter to
hand out to parents.
This will let them know of the new
curriculum you’re using in your
child care / preschool.
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Dear Parents,
We are using a new preschool program this year
called 1 – 2 – 3 Learn Curriculum. Each week will be
weekly, bi-weekly or monthly theme.
Themes that your children will enjoy like: Down on
the Farm, Winter Wonderland, Under the Sea and the
current theme we’re working on now. Caterpillar to
Butterflies.
Some of these projects will be taken home to share
with you and others will be group activities that you can
ask about. I think that both you and your child will enjoy
this new program as much as I will.
Please make sure you spend time looking at what
your children do each week. They are so proud of what
they do!
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Curriculum is a professionally planned preschool
curriculum designed to be used in both family child
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of printing up each day what you need, and saving on
waste. Money saving, this disk can be used over year
after year.
What are the goals of 1 – 2 – 3 Learn Curriculum?
1 – 2 – 3 Learn Curriculum was developed by a child
care provider of 23 years. The activities included are
age appropriate and designed to help the whole child
grow, and develop socially, physically and
intellectually. Our program will help prepare each child
for kindergarten, while opening the door for the
children to be creative and express their artistic
abilities.
Numbers, letters, shapes and colors are introduced
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Infant Lesson Plan
Theme: Butterflies
_____________________
Book: Good Night, Sweet Butterfly by Dawn Bentley
Date: ______________________________________
Sign Language
All Week
I’m Done - More
Goal
Communicating at
meal time / language
skills
Games and
Manipulates
Exploration
Monday
Tuesday
Structured Free
Play
Stacking Cups
Goals
Building and
knocking over
towers
Baby Faces
Goals
Finding eyes, nose
and mouth
Wednesday Thursday
Sensory
Jell-O Play
Goals
Explore texture and
smell
Hide & Seek
.
Goals
Building trust with
care giver – Sense
of independence.
Friday
What’s in the Box?
Goals
Fine motor
development /
problem solving
Play Peek a Boo
Butterfly Catch
Pat a Cake
Point out to infant all the butterflies you can find around the room. (Make sure you have the toddlers and
preschoolers paint or color butterflies to hang from the ceiling). Point out different colors of the butterflies.
Let the infant play with a roll of toilet paper or box of tissues. Watch closely so they don’t go straight to their
mouth. Let them explore the feel. Throw pieces in the air and watch them float down.
Music, Movement
Story Time
Read the book “Good Night Sweet Butterfly”
Sing Good Morning Song
Butterfly Wings Poem
Flying Butterfly – Movement
Baby Goes Up
Butterfly Catch
Use a sheet of tissue paper (or
toilet paper) and flutter it in front
of child, inviting them to try
to "catch the butterfly" with their
hands. Be sure to allow child to
"catch" the paper a few times!
Enjoy some music whiling
playing with dancing scarves.
Pat A Cake
Pat a cake, Pat a cake
Baker's Man, (Clap babies hands together)
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Roll it and Roll it and mark it with a B
(Roll baby’s hands around each other)
Toss it in the arm for baby and me!
(Take babies hands and lift them in the air)
(Take babies hands and then rub tummy and say
yum yum yum!)
Butterfly Wings
Butterfly wings go fluttering by,
Down to the flowers
and up to the sky,
Butterfly wings tickle your toes,
(tickle baby's toes)
Butterfly wings land right on your
nose. (tickle nose with fingertips)
Flying Butterfly
Cut out a butterfly from construction
paper and fly your butterfly around to
cheery music (or help your child fly
the butterfly around). Repeat the
phrase "butterfly flutters in the sky!"
Baby Go Up
(tune to Loop D' Loo)
Up in the air to right, (raise baby’s hands)
Up in the air to left, (raise baby’s hands)
Wiggle baby up like this, (Wiggle hands gently)
And now give a butterfly kiss!
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Toddler Lesson Plan
Theme: Butterflies
_____________________
Book: Good Night, Sweet Butterfly by Dawn Bentley
Date: ______________________________________
Sign Language
All Week
I’m Done - More
Goal
Communicating at
meal time / language
skills
Games and
Manipulates
Exploration
Music, Movement
Story Time
Monday
Tuesday
Structured Free
Play
Blocks
Goals
Building and
knocking over
towers
Sorting Toys
Goals
Motor development
Placing shapes into
the correct hole
Wednesday Thursday
Sensory
Jell-O Play
Goals
Explore texture and
smell
Hide & Seek
.
Goals
Building trust with
care giver – Sense
of independence.
Friday
What’s in the Box?
Goals
Fine motor
development /
problem solving
Butterfly Catch
Butterfly Concepts: High and Low
Point out to toddler all the butterflies you can find around the room. (Make sure you have some hanging around
the room and assorted butterfly items to make it fun for them to find). Point out colors of the butterflies. Ask them if
they can find a certain color butterfly.
Let the toddler play with a roll of toilet paper or box of tissues. Watch closely so they don’t go straight to their
mouth. Let them explore the feel. Have them throw pieces in the air and watch them float down.
Read the book “Good Night Sweet Butterfly”
Sing Good Morning Song
Color Butterflies Poem
Take out instruments and play music.
Butterfly Concepts
By playing with cardboard butterflies, children will
learn the concepts of High and Low. This will also
incorporate music, gym, listening skills, and art.
Goals
Children will understand the concepts of high and
low.
Children will learn to move to music in a way that
emulates butterflies
Children will learn to appreciate the beauty of
butterflies.
1. Read the children a book about butterflies. At the end, review
some of the pictures, pointing out the beautiful colors of the
butterflies. Also notice that they fly close to the ground sometimes,
and high in the air other times.
2. Hold your butterfly up and show the children how it “flies.” As
you move the butterfly say, “My butterfly can fly very high. It can fly
very low.” Demonstrate.
3. Give each child a butterfly to color.
4. Have the children return to the lesson area by helping their
butterflies fly to the lesson area.
5. Help the children practice high and low by following your
example with their own butterflies. Say, “Make your butterfly go
high. Now make him go low. High. Low.” Continue for a few
minutes until the children understand.
6. Explain to the children that you are going to play butterfly music.
They may help their butterflies dance to the music, but they must
stop as soon as the music stops.
7. After the children have danced for a few minutes, stop the
music. Tell them you are going to play the music more softly, and
they must listen to both you and the music. You’ll call out high or
low, and they must fly their butterflies high or low, whichever you
call out. Practice without the music for a minute. Then turn on the
music softly and play the game.
8. When the children are ready to stop, you can help them turn
their butterflies into necklaces if you like, by punching a hole in the
top and putting yarn through it.
Color Butterflies
The first to come to the garden bed,
Is a lovely butterfly of brilliant red.
Then in comes another and that makes two,
Fly right in, my friend of blue.
“The garden is fine, the best I’ve ever seen.”
Says the butterfly of spring time green.
Our garden needs a sunshiny fellow,
Fly in butterfly with wings of yellow.
Orange, orange you’ve waited so long,
Fly right in where you belong.
Butterflies, butterflies your such a sight,
Flying in together – a springtime delight.
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Butterflies for “Color Butterflies”
Use the following color butterflies for the “Color
Butterfly” poem. Print up on white card stock.
Trim, laminate if desired.
Depending on how many children you have in
your child care / class, print up enough so
everyone gets one butterfly.
Read the poem, and as you come to a color,
have the child/ren holding the red butterfly raise it
in the air and wave it.
Raise butterflies with each color of the poem and
wave.
Color Format
Print up on white card stock.
red
blue
green
B & W Format
Print up on white card stock. Color
each butterfly a color. This will
save on ink.
yellow
orange
Lesson Plan for Preschoolers is done using the
book – The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric
Carle. You can use the same concept and ideas
with a different book. The Very Hungry
Caterpillar was used because it is a popular
children’s book, and most child care providers
have this in their library. ☺
Thanks
Jean
Preschool Lesson Plan – The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Letters of the Week B & C
Monday
Vocabulary
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Caterpillar, butterfly, hungry, egg, leaf, moon, sun, apple, pears, plums, strawberries, cake, ice cream cone, pickle, Swiss
cheese, salami, lollipop, cherry pie, cupcake, watermelon, stomachache, beautiful.
Community Circle
Greeting
Good Morning Song
Daily Message
Good morning boys and girls. Today is
Read Aloud
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
. Today we’re going to learn about Caterpillars and Butterflies.
Interactive Writing
Shared Reading
On Friday let one of the children read the book to the group.
Music & Poetry
Small Group
Regroup to
Revisit Focus
Butterfly Book – Read
together,
Phonemic Awareness – I
Spy something that
rhymes with….
Writing- Practice writing
words in the book “Life
Cycle of a Butterfly”.
Color.
Butterfly Book – Read
together,
Phonemic Awareness – I
Spy something that
rhymes with….
Writing– Using
whiteboard have
children write an easy
word from NR.
Have kids share
something they
did/read/made in AL.
Have kids share
something they
did/read/made in AL.
AL = Active Learning
Butterfly Book – Read
together,
Phonemic Awareness – I
Spy something
that rhymes with….
Writing– Using
magnetic letters play
unscramble words using
words from “”Life
Cycle of a Butterfly”
Have kids share
something they
did/read/made in AL.
Butterfly Book – Read
it. Give pointer to child
and let him lead the
reading.
Phonemic Awareness – I
Spy something that
rhymes with….
Writing– Using
magnetic letters give
children their names.
Have them unscrambled
their names.
Have kids share
something they
did/read/made in AL.
Butterfly Book – Read
together,
Phonemic Awareness – I
Spy something that
rhymes with….
Writing- Practice writing
words in the book “Life
Cycle of a Butterfly”.
Color. Send book home
with children today.
Have kids share
something they
did/read/made in AL.
Active Learning: (Activity and Literacy Props)
Dramatic Play – Have butterfly nets and play butterfly’s set out. Locate a life cycle of the butterfly puzzle or toy for a visual
for the children. Do a butterfly puppet show. Print up butterfly pictures, tape to a stir paint stick. Get together fake plants,
green tablecloth, table or puppet stage. Have children put on a butterfly puppet show.
Art – Play with play dough. Make butterfly shapes.
Read/Listen –
Writing – Sort magnetic letter into baggies with names of different butterflies (pictures). Have children practice writing names
with magnets or using white eraser boards.
Science/Sensory – Set up sand table area with butterflies, plastic flowers, some assorted leaves. Butterfly hunt.
Blocks – Alphabet blocks with vocabulary words nearby to spell with blocks.
Family / Home Connection
Send home letter to parents explaining theme of the week and send home a copy of vocabulary words so that parents can help
their child write words on their dry eraser board. Send copy of Life Cycle of a Butterfly book so parents can read with their
child.
TO DO List:
Make: Print up Life Cycle of a Butterfly book/put together.
Buy: Plastic butterflies, Life Cycle of a Butterfly puzzle or book. Play dough to make butterflies.
Gather: Blocks and vocabulary words.
Other: Plan Active Learning activities.
Caterpillar to Butterfly
Week 1
Large Group Activities
Theme
Worksheets
Letter B
Monday
Butterfly Book Work on during the
week.
Introduce the letter B
Tuesday
* Butterfly color
sheet
B is for Butterfly
Worksheet
1 Caterpillar
Worksheet
Wednesday
Draw a Line to the
Matching Picture
Pictures that Begin
with the Letter B
1 Hungry Caterpillar
Worksheet
Thursday
Color – cut out
pictures – glue in
matching row
Friday
Caterpillar to
Butterfly Lacing Card
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Number
1
Color Blue
Introduce color blue
Cut and paste 1
caterpillar
Color the ball blue.
Trace word
Shape
Circle
Introduce the
shape Circle
worksheet
Blue Balloon
Worksheet
Cut out Circle
Glue blue tissue
paper to circle under
circle project. Cut
out
Color the circles
* Start Color Blue
Book
* Save the Butterfly color sheet and Color Blue Book. Add more pages during the month to create 2 separate books. Have children bring
home at the end of this theme
Weekly Planner
Week of: _____________________________________
Materials Needed:
Circle time:
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Caterpillar to Butterfly
Advance Preparation
• Locate the book you would like to use for the week
during circle time. Theme related and something age
appropriate. You can check the book list included with
this theme.
• Stick with one book for the week.
• Ahead of time print up the wall charts for the letter B,
color blue, number 2, and the shape circle. Decide if
you’re going to use color or B & W. If using B & W,
color them ahead of time. Hang the wall charts in the
playroom or around your circle area.
• Purchase any necessary ingredients for cooking or
snack activities you wish to do during the week.
• Print up worksheets you will need for the day.
• Make sure to have all craft materials on hand for any
projects you will be doing this week.
.
Caterpillar to Butterfly
Book List
Charlie the Caterpillar by Dom Deluise
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by
Alan Madison
My, Oh My--A Butterfly!: All About
Butterflies by Tish Rabe
Clara Caterpillar by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Henry Cole
Caterpillar Spring, Butterfly Summer
by Susan Hood (Author), Claudine Gvry
(Author)
Good Night, Sweet Butterflies: A Color
Dreamland by Dawn Bentley
How to Hide a Butterfly and Other
Insects by Ruth Heller
Caterpillar to Butterfly: A Colorful
Adventure by Sally Symes, Sharon Harmer
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Hardcover)
by Eric Carle
Caterpillars, Bugs & Butterflies (Take
Along Guide)by Mel Boring
Wings of Change (Hardcover)
by Franklin Hill
Large Wall Flashcards
The color blue, shape circle, numbers 1 &
2, and letters B & C are available in both
color and B & W.
These can be printed on white card stock,
laminated and hung up during “Caterpillar to
Butterfly.
You can also use the B & W sheets as extra
worksheets for the children.
Print the worksheets up on regular copy
paper.
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Blue
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Butterfly
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Caterpillar
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Blue
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Butterfly
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Caterpillar
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Caterpillar to Butterfly
Monday
Circle Time
• Welcome each child – talk about today’s activities.
Encourage children to share anything new. Do Good
Morning song.
• Talk about Caterpillars and Butterflies. Let the children
know that is what the theme is for the week. Ask the
children what they know about caterpillars. What do
caterpillars turn into?
• Introduce the letter of the week:
Letter Chant:
Letters, letters, Letters have names.
What is the name of this letter?
• On a small dry eraser board, write down the letter B. Ask
the children to tell you the letter, and ask them if it is a
upper case or a lower case B. Once they tell you the letter,
erase it, and write it small in the upper right hand corner.
Ask them to give you words that start with the letter B.
Sound them out so they hear the B sound. Draw the picture.
(You don’t have to be an artist; the children enjoy your
effort).
• If you do “jobs” during circle time, you can do those now.
(Examples: What’s the weather outside? What is today’s
day? Calendar)
•
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Monday
Circle Time – cont.
• Have a large dry eraser board or large sheet of paper. Have
the children do an interactive morning message. Until the
children get use to this, you say and write it each day. A
good example is:
Daily Message:
Good morning boys and girls. Today is ____________.
Today we’re learning about caterpillars and butterflies. Love
(your name)
Once the children get use to interactive writing, you can ask
them to help you write the message. Ask them what you
should write. If they say Good morning, ask them what does
Good start what, and let a child come up and write the letter
G. As the child is writing the G, on your smaller dry eraser
board, show the children and have them practice writing G on
the floor or in the air.
Have the children write several letters, and then together
using a pointer stick read the daily message together. Count
together how many letters they wrote. (Use 2 different color
dry eraser markers. One color for the children and one color
for your writing so they have a visual of the letters they wrote).
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Monday
Circle Time – cont.
• Have children stand up and stretch before you start reading
the story book you have chosen for the week.
Stretching Poem
Reach up high – to the sky (Reach to the ceiling)
Reach down low – to the floor (Reach to the floor)
Stand up straight and lets all wiggle….
Wiggle your fingers and wiggle your toes
Wiggle your head and wiggle your nose.
Wiggle your arms and legs and feet….
Turn around and sit right down.
• Once children are seated, get ready to read the story. Read
the title, author and illustrator. While reading the story, ask
opened ended questions about the story. Encourage
questions about the story, but direct children back to the
book if their questions are not related to story. When story
is done, circle time is done.
.
Good Morning Song
Good morning, good morning,
It’s ______________ today.
I'm ready for work –
Are you ready for play?
Are you ready to play?
The duck goes quack quack!
The cow goes moo, and old Mr Rooster says
cock a doodle doo!
The sheep says baa, and the cat says meow,
and I say good morning when I see you!! Good
morning friends!
Monday
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My Butterfly Book
Print up ahead of time, and trim down. Put in
order and staple on the left hand side creating
a book.
Before you work on this book, read a story
during circle time about how caterpillars turn
into butterflies.
Have the children work on their book during
the week.
My Butterfly Book
By
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Butterfly eggs come in many shapes and colors.
Caterpillar
The caterpillar is a long – worm like stage of the butterfly.
Cocoon
A covering of silky strands spun by a caterpillar and
inhabited for protection during its pupal stage.
Butterfly
The butterfly is what merges out of the cocoon.
Draw your own colorful butterfly.
Name __________________
Trace the letter with your finger. Color
Practice writing the letter “B”
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Name __________________________
Color
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Tuesday
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Butterfly Sheet
Print up ahead of time, and trim down. Have
the children color. Save this sheet because
you will be adding pages to this sheet to
make a butterfly information book at the end
of this theme.
Name ____________________
Butterflies are among the most beautiful insects in the world.
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Name __________________
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Name ___________________
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Wednesday
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Draw a line to the matching picture - Color
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Name ____________________
All these pictures begin with the “B b”
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Name ___________________
1 Hungry Caterpillar
Draw food for the caterpillar to eat.
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Blue
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Thursday
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Name _________________________
Color - cut out the pictures below and glue them in the matching row.
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I Can Cut and Paste 1 Caterpillar
Count the caterpillars. Color - cut out and paste 1 caterpillar on the leaf.
Glue the other caterpillars to the back of this sheet.
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Print out on white card stock. Cut the sheet and give each child a circle. Have the
children color. Cut out. (Scissor skills)
Circle
Circle
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Lacing Cards
Children love lacing cards. You have the
option of printing up color or b & w cards to
color yourself and keep with your
“Caterpillar to Butterfly” theme.
You can print up the color lacing cards, cut
out – leaving about ½ an inch border,
laminate, and punch holes around the card
using a hole punch.
Give the children lacing strings, yarn or
shoe laces to lace the cards.
The b & w set can also be used as an
additional craft for the children. Give each
child one of the cards, have them color and
cut out. Have an adult punch holes, and
they can lace using the above options of
string.
Lacing strings can be purchased though
http://www.discountschoolsupply.com/
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Finished Picture Lace-Up Cards.
Print up on white card stock, trim leaving ½ inch border. Laminate the
colored lace-up card and punch holes. Let the children lace up using
yarn or shoe laces. You can also use B & W lace up card as an addition
craft. Give each child one card.
Name __________________
Color the ball blue
Trace.
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Color the circles
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My Color Blue Book
Print up on white card stock. Let children
color and trim. Save this sheet, because you
will be adding pages to this sheet to make a
“My Color Blue” book at the end of this
theme.
You will attach all the pages together when
done with a round key ring, piece of yarn,
bread twist.
My Book
Of
Blue
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Blue
Dinosaur