Have an insect sound contest where students use instruments, found materials, body parts and voices to imitate insect sounds. Extend the above chart to be "What We Know", "What We Want to Know" and "How We Can Find Out". Let children select one of the insects for further investigation. Use cardboard circles or pizza boards to make life cycles for each of the insects selected by children to research. Typical of Carle's style, the language is simple, with rhythm, repetition, and alliteration to delight young listeners. Painted collage illustrations are lavish and expressive."-- School Library Journal This is probably the best known of Carle’s work. In it a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Read more about this book.

Place the above circles on a large wall or bulletin board. Let children choose lengths of colored yarn or ribbon and connect any insects where they can state the reasons for similarity: habitat, habits, color, shape, noise, food, etc. The fun story has a few repeating words that will have your children reading along with you in no time. Nature/ScienceEvaluation of Literary Elements: I think that the repetitive text is very important because it helps children remember it and they can learn a lot from that. In addition, the big, colorful images keeps the children engages throughout the book. A grandfather starts releasing bees so that he and his granddaughter can follow them to the bee tree. They are soon joined by a whole line of followers. Then, I showed Troy the parts of the body and had him count the legs. He of course knew the head, but the thorax (middle section) and abdomen (end) were new to him. I’m sure it went a little over his head, but I wanted to introduce this concept to him. I’m sure his grandpa will be proud of him for learning this!! urn:oclc:872610261 Scandate 20111123031219 Scanner scribe12.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Source

Clutter-Free Classroom is the place where elementary teachers get the time-saving tips, ideas and resources they need to make teaching easier and more enjoyable. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.A ladybug is unwilling to share the aphids on a leaf and so flies off to challenge bigger and bigger animals to a fight.