Caterpillar Class – Home Learning Pack – Week beginning 15.6.20

Minibeasts

Dear Parents and Children of Caterpillar Class,

I hope you enjoyed last week’s activities based on ‘Pirates’ and that any

treasure you have is still safe! This week’s activities are based around

‘Minibeasts’, a topic that I know you all really enjoy. Across the week, there

are activities that cover all areas of the EYFS curriculum. As always, the

activities are to help support you and your child while you are learning

together at home. Please have fun with the activities and enjoy them!

Books suggestions for this week:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar written by Eric Carle

(watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXHScpo_Vv8)

What the Ladybird Heard written by Julia Donaldson

(watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu9mPX7DuLA)

Superworm written by Julia Donaldson.

(watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jnk3XApKBg)

Aaaarrgghh Spider! written by Lydia Monks

(watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQD84blj-w)

Yucky Worms written by Vivian French

(watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV3A864z9W0)

Thank you for all your efforts working at home. Remember to let me know

how you are getting on and post some photos on Class Dojo if you can.

Mr Whines

Monday 15th June

Activity 1:

Repeating Patterns

Have a go at completing the

repeated patterns in the Powerpoint

resource, ‘Curly Caterpillar Repeated

Patterns’. Can you work out which

colour comes next?

Can you create some repeated

patterns of your own? Make them

look like caterpillars by drawing

circles and colouring them in to

create a pattern.

Activity 2

Minibeast Mini-book

Can you make your own minibeast

book? Draw a picture of a different

minibeast on each page. When you

have finished your book share it with

an adult.

Find out how to make an 8-page

mini-book from one piece of A4 paper

by watching this video ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

21qi9ZcQVto

Activity 3

Minibeast Hotel

Make your own minibeast hotel (see

resources), place it outdoors and see

which bugs come to visit!

P.E.

Tuesday 16th June

Activity 1:

Worm Hotel

Follow the instructions to make your

own worm hotel (see resources)!

Activity 2

Spider Web Art

Create spider web string paintings.

Carefully dip a piece of string into

white paint and then place the string

onto black or dark paper to create

straight and circular lines.

Can you create other spider webs like

the ones below?

Activity 3

Ladybird Numbers

Draw a leaf. Now draw some

ladybirds on the leaf. How many

have your drawn? Ask an adult to

do the same. How many ladybirds

have they drawn?

Which leaf has more ladybirds?

Which leaf has fewer?

P.E.

Wednesday 17th June

Activity 1:

Minibeast Hunt

Go into the garden or into a local

park. Hunt for minibeasts! How

many can you find?

Use the checklist (see resources) to

tick off the minibeasts that you find.

Which one is the most popular?

Which ones can you not find?

Activity 2

Move Like a Minibeast

Can you move like a caterpillar? How

about a spider? Think of a minibeast

and try to copy how it moves.

To help you, have a look at the

Minibeast Action Cards (see

resources).

Activity 3

‘What Am I?’

Open the Powerpoint resource,

‘What Am I?’ to play a minibeast

guessing game. Click on the leaves

to reveal individual clues. Put the

answers together to guess the

minibeast. Can you guess the

answer after one clue or do you

need all three?

P.E.

Thursday 18th June

Activity 1:

Craft Minibeasts

Follow the instructions (see

resources) to make a paper plate

spider’s web or a paper bowl

ladybird.

Can you think of other ways that you

could use a paper plate or a paper

bowl to make different minibeasts?

Activity 2

‘5 Rules’ for Minibeasts!

How do we look after and care for

minibeasts? Can you think of five

rules that would help someone look

after minibeasts?

Activity 3

Classical Minibeast Music

Listen to some minibeast inspired

classical music (see below). How

does the music make you want to

move? Does the music make you

think of the minibeast that inspired

it?

‘The Flight of the Bumblebee’ by

Rimsky-Korsakov.

‘The Wasps’ by Vaughan-Williams.

‘From the Diary of a Fly’ by Bela

Bartok.

P.E.

Friday 19th June

Activity 1:

Wacky Minibeasts

Use chalks to draw outdoors or paint

indoors. Create your own wacky

minibeasts, e.g. add the legs of a

spider to the body of a ladybird and

then give it some dragonfly wings!

What would you call this minibeast?

A ‘Ladyspider-dragon’ perhaps?

Activity 2

Minibeast Masks

1. Cut a paper plate in half. Then cut out a triangle from the straight edge so there’s

room for your nose.

2. Hold the mask up to your face and mark where the eye holes should be, then cut

them out.

3. Now it’s time to decorate your mask.

Take a look at amazing minibeast

images in books or on the internet.

4. If your creepy crawly has antennae,

punch two holes at the top of the mask

and attach some pipe cleaners.

5. Finally, punch holes at either side and attach some string or elastic to tie the

mask round your head.

Activity 3

‘The Snail’

Henri Matisse used pieces of

coloured paper to create this picture

called ‘The Snail’. Create your own

snail (or other minibeast) using only

coloured paper. Don’t glue the

paper down, as this means you can

move the pieces around. Take a

photo of the finished minibeast!

P.E.