The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a work by American children's book writer Eric Carle. For more than 30 years, this bug has crawled across the United States to many countries around the world, becoming a long-lasting legend among children. of classics.

Introduction This is a very interesting story. A thin and hungry caterpillar emerged from a small egg. The caterpillar gnawed through apples, pears, plums, strawberries, oranges, and cakes. ...There are many things, only to find that only leaves are the most suitable food for it. Eventually, he transformed from a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly.

Reasons for Recommendation This classic children's picture book is very popular for at least two reasons.

The book itself is very attractive, with concise text and bright and colorful pictures, which is very attractive.

Another thing, it tells children more things in a subtle way -

1. The concept of a week, knowing that there are seven days in a week.

2. The concept of number corresponds the abstract 1234567 to the number of specific objects.

3. The names of foods introduce a lot of fruits and foods.

4. The metamorphosis of butterflies, knowing that butterflies change from caterpillars.

5. Eat reasonably and know not to be greedy. Eating too much will cause stomach pain. No matter how delicious something is, you can't eat too much at one time.

I believe that there are more interesting, fun and informative things waiting for you and your children to discover during *** reading.

Two days before sharing my parent-child reading experience, I also read this book with my little baby who is under one year old. In order to attract his attention, I made the caterpillar's daily eating process into a cheerful nursery rhyme.

On Monday, the caterpillar ate an apple, Am!

On Tuesday, the caterpillar ate two pears, Am! Am!

On Wednesday, the caterpillar ate three plums, Am! Am! Am!

On Thursday, the caterpillar ate four strawberries, Am!Am!Am!Am!

On Friday, the caterpillar ate five oranges, Am!Am!Am!Am!Am!

When reading with you, you can lead your children to read in an exaggerated and cheerful tone.

If your child can already speak, you can let him or her read along. Then the tempo picks up again and again. During every Am time, the child will be very excited.

After listening to this, my little baby clapped his hands rhythmically with me, especially every time I said "Am", he laughed so happily.

Extended expansion can be done for older children. Here are a few examples:

1. Popular science knowledge about caterpillars:

Caterpillars generally refer to The larvae of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) insects.

It has 3 pairs of thoracic legs, and most of them have 5 pairs of abdominal and caudal legs. Some larvae have many poisonous bristles on their bodies, and their skin will become red and swollen if touched by humans.

The color is beautiful, and the adult body limbs and wings are covered with scales and hairs, so the two pairs of wings are scale wings, and the forewings are larger than the hind wings; siphonic mouthparts (the primitive small-winged moths have a well-developed upper jaw, Chewing type); antennae are filamentous, bi-cten-shaped, cten-shaped, club-shaped, etc.; compound eyes are well developed, with 2 or no single eye. The larvae are worm-like, with 3 pairs of thoracic legs, and mostly 5 pairs of abdominal and caudal legs. There are setae on the larvae. The arrangement and naming of the setae are called trichomes, which is of great significance in classification. There are about 112,000 species, including moths and butterflies. Some can be used as bait and fish feed, and are often active in leaves, tree trunks, etc., mostly in spring and summer.

2. How does the caterpillar protect itself:

Understand what mimicry, protective color, warning color are...

3. Understand the metamorphosis process of butterflies: < /p>

There are four completely different forms in the life of a butterfly, namely the egg stage, larval stage, pupa stage and adult stage. Most of the butterflies that people see in the wild are their adults. Therefore, butterflies are completely Metamorphosis of insects.

A butterfly goes through four stages of development: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult.

Older children can be guided to write an exercise about observing small animals.

I wish you and your children a happy reading~