 My name is Dana Bariantos and we are going to read a story for our story time today Called the very hungry caterpillar and in this story We'll be focusing on the sequence of days and sequence of items that the caterpillar eats and also be identifying Those items as whether they were a healthy food or a not healthy food for a caterpillar and to talk about the difference between those This is both a sequencing activity and also oral language because it helps the students to Use complete sentences when talking and to use describing words when they're describing objects that they may or may not be familiar with All right, so the title of our story is the very hungry caterpillar and the author's name is Eric Carl Now today I want you to pay special attention to something We're going to be looking at the food that the caterpillar was eating and we're gonna see if he remembered That caterpillars to get big and strong so they can make their chrysalis They have to eat healthy food, right? Just like you have to eat healthy food. So you can get big and strong, right? Okay, who wants to get big and tall? Yeah, so you have to eat super. Yeah, me too You have to eat some super healthy food. All right. Here we go In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf Is the caterpillar inside? Let's see I don't know You were right on Sunday morning the warm sun came out and pop out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar So what day did he come out? on Sunday on Sunday. What day comes after Sunday? Monday, let's see what he ate on Monday on Monday. He ate through one apple But he was still hungry. Did he choose a healthy snack? Is an apple a healthy snack? Sure. Who brought an apple today? Yes, that's a great healthy snack So so far he's eating apples, pears, plums, strawberries, oranges, and those are all kinds of fruits and those are very healthy. Then came the weekend This would be like our day off of school. He kind of had his day off, too I don't think he ate very healthy. Do you? Let's see what he ate He ate some chocolate cake Was that healthy? He had eight through one ice cream cone. Was that a healthy snack? No He ate through one pickle What do you think about pickles? Is that a healthy food? Hey, I don't think you're gonna get very much many vitamins, but it's okay a Cheese, is cheese healthy for you? Yeah, that comes from milk And last was watermelon. Was that a healthy snack? Yes And you know what? After he was done eating all of those foods He was and he had a tummy ache. What do you look like when your tummy hurts? Oh, it's your tummy hurt. You holding on to it. Yeah So then on Sunday, he saw a nice green leaf and he thought oh that looks delicious So we ate all the way through that green leaf and you know what? His tummy started to feel a lot better Probably because that's what caterpillars are supposed to eat anyway, right? They like leaves and things that they can find on the green on the ground Do you remember our caterpillars when they were sitting up here and they were eating all of that food in their little jar? They got a lot bigger. Didn't they because when we got them they were like Big and then they kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and Then they turned into their chrysalis or their cocoon, right? Yeah And ta-da He came out of a butterfly So do you think he pit made some good healthy food choices? Yeah, some of the time did he make some not good food choices? Yeah, he was eating a lot of sweets wasn't he and he got a tummy ache the end