The Very Hungry Caterpillar - an update

Brainstorming a shared story

Before we start writing we always spent time reviewing our learning and sharing ideas on how to write about this.

Here are our latest ideas after we examined the start of the story. We are learning how to think of and begin a story. 

We watched the video story again, focusing on what we saw at the very beginning. We had to think about 'what' happened, 'who' was introduced to us, and 'when' (what time of day) the story began. 

Later in the same week, we then talked about the end of the story using the same thinking. 

These are the parts we created together. 

Gracie said that the story started at "night time". Keilee shared that the "egg cracked open when the sun came up". We all agreed that the caterpillar was very hungry when it came out of the cocoon. 

At the end of the story, we all agreed that the caterpillar went into the cocoon. Serah shared that this was for "10 days or more". 

Mrs Dellaway suggested we use the word 'nibble' to describe the way the caterpillar took small bites of the cocoon to make a hole in it. Ollie then shared that the caterpillar "burst" out as a butterfly.  

Mrs Dellaway wondered what kind of butterfly it was, and we decided that it was a "rainbow one" because it was so colourful.