Detailed Lesson Plan in Kindergarten

“The Very Hungry Caterpillar”

Prepared by: Ms. Bea Marie B. Quintino

I. Objectives
At the end of the 45 minute lesson, the student shall be able to:
1. Sequence the events in the story.
2. Explain the importance of eating the right kind of food.
3. Sing and dance the “The Hungry Caterpillar” song
4. Name the objects that starts with Letter Cc

II. Subject Matter

Story: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Materials: Visual Aids, cartolina strips for unlocking words, pictures,
charts and speaker.

III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Learner’s Activity

A. Preliminary Activities

 Prayer
- Let us pray ……. Amen
- Everybody stand up. Lead the
Prayer Gavin.
- Hello, hello, Can you clap your
 Hello Song
hands……

 Greetings/Classroom
Arrangement
- Good morning class.
- Good morning teacher.
Good morning classmates.
It’s great to see you again
today!

- Before you take your seats - Yes, teacher.

kindly pick up the trashes you
can see inside the classroom and
 put it in the trash bins.

After a minute…..
- Thank you teacher.
- You may now take your seats
class.

 Attendance - Yes, teacher.

- Before anything else, let me
check your attendance. Say
present if your name is called.

After a minute…..
- Teacher, it’s all about things
 Review that starts with letter B.
- Okay class, what was our topic
last meeting? Yes, Laura? - bear, box, bee, bag, butterfly
etc.
- Okay Very good! Can you name a
things that starts with a letter B?
Give me one example.

- Very good kids!

B. Developmental Activities - My name is .

- My favorite food is .
 Motivation
- What is your favorite food?
- What food do you love to eat?

 Unlocking of Difficulties
1. Tiny (Show a picture of a very
tiny dot.)

- Very small.
- Children, I have here a dot. This
dot is very tiny. What can you say - Tiny
about its size? Is it very big or very
small?

- Say, Tiny

2. Nibbled - Tiny bites!

- Class, I have here a cracker. I am
going to nibble this cracker. (I will
bite it a little in front of them and (Children will demonstrate)
asks, how did I bite the cracker? Is
it big bites? Or tiny bites?) - Nibbled

- When we make tiny bites, we say

we nibbled. Show me how to
nibble. Show me how to nibble.

- Very good! Say Nibbled!

3. Stomach ache (demonstration)

- Last night, I ate a lot of food and
my tummy is very full. That is why I - Stomach ache!
got stomach ache. (I will hold my
tummy to show that it hurts or
there is pain in my tummy.)

- What do you think do I feel on my

tummy? Stomach ache!

Say stomach ache!

- Caterpillar

4. Cocoon
(Show a caterpillar)
 - Who knows what this is? This is
caterpillar. One day, it will
become a butterfly.

(Show a picture)

- But before it becomes a butterfly, - Cocoon

it will stay and sleep inside the
cocoon.

(Show a picture of a cocoon)

-Yes, teacher.
- I eat food.

- What is this again, Say cocoon!

 Motive/Motivation Questions
- Have you felt hungry?
- What do you do when you feel
hungry?

- Let’s find out in our story who is

hungry and let us see what did he
do when he felt hungry.

 Story Reading
- Our story for today is “The Very
Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle

In the light of the moon, a little egg

lay on a leaf.
One Sunday morning the warm sun
came up and –pop!
Out of the egg came a tiny and very
hungry caterpillar.

He started to look for some food.

On Monday he ate through one
apple.
But he was still hungry.
On Tuesday he ate through two
pears.
But he was still hungry.
On Wednesday he ate through three
plums.
But he was still hungry.
On Thursday he ate through four
strawberries.
But he was still hungry.
On Friday he ate through five
oranges.
But he was still hungry.
On Saturday he ate through one
piece of chocolate cake, one ice
cream cone, one pickle, one slice of
swiss cheese, one slice of salami,
one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie,
one sausage, one cupcake and one
slice of watermelon. -tiny caterpillar
That night he had a stomachache!
-he eat.
The next day was Sunday again.
The caterpillar ate through one nice - one apple
green leaf, and after that he felt - two pears
much better. - three plums
Now he wasn’t hungry anymore – - four strawberries
and he wasn’t a little caterpillar - five oranges
anymore. - one piece of chocolate cake, one
He was a big, fat caterpillar. ice cream cone, one pickle, one
He built small house, called a
cocoon, around himself. He stayed
inside for more than two weeks.
Then he nibbled a hole in the
cocoon, push his way out and…..
He was a beautiful butterfly
The end.
 Discussion
1. Who was hungry in the story?
2. What did the caterpillar do?
3. What did he eat on Monday?
Tuesday? Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday? Paste it on
the other chart. “The Very
Hungry Caterpillar ate …. (until
they formed a caterpillar body
out of it)
4. How many foods did the
caterpillar eat on Saturday?
5. What did he feel after eating
those foods?
Are these foods good for the
caterpillar?
6. What did he eat on Sunday?
7. How did he feel after eating a
leaf?
slice of swiss cheese, one slice of
salami, one lollipop, one piece of
cherry pie, one sausage, one
cupcake and one slice of
watermelon.
- Ten
- He had a stomachache
- No, teacher.
- One nice green leaf.
- He felt much better.
- He became a big and fat
caterpillar.
- Yes, teacher
- Healthy food.
- Fruits and vegetables
- To become healthy.
- Junk foods
-Because it is not good for our
body.
- We get sick.
- We need to eat healthy food
like fruits and vegetables.
 What happened to his body after
he ate?

8. Are leaves good for him?

What about you, what’s good for - The caterpillar.
you?
What food should you eat? (Then
show a picture of good food)

Why should we eat these?

9. What food should we do not eat?

(Show pictures of junk foods)
Why should we avoid these
foods?
What will happen to us if we - The caterpillar.
keep eating junk foods?

10.When it comes to eating food,

- In the cocoon.
what should we remember?

 Enrichment Activities

A. Now let us sing and dance the

song “The Caterpillar Song”.
Follow teacher.
B. Arts and craft
Who was hungry in our story?
Now, we are going to make a
caterpillar using circle cut outs. - Carrot, crayons, candle,
Cc is for Caterpillar. chocolate, cup, corn.

C. Lesson Proper

 Beginning Reading Cc
1. Introduction (from the story)
a. They tiny caterpillar felt
 hungry.
Who felt hungry?

b. The big caterpillar stayed

and sleep inside the
cocoon. Where does
caterpillar sleep?

Caterpillar and cocoon begins with

letter Cc. - Yes, teacher.

 Presentation of the Lesson

a. Vocabulary Development
I have here a box. I will show you
some objects inside of it. Can you
name them?

b. Introducing the Letter Sound

These objects and pictures have
names that start in letter Cc.
Teach the sound of letter Cc.
Let’s sound it. Let’s name the
pictures and objects again.

c. Introducing the Letter form

How do we write the big letter C?
the small letter c? Let us write big
letter C on the air; on your
classmates back; on the board.
Do the same with the small letter
c.

 Application
Let’s play a game.
I have here a set of cards that
contains pictures. Get one card. If
 you can name it, you can keep the
card. Are you ready? Let’s start the
game! (Then ask each child what
pictures are on their cards.)

Look at the pictures on the chart.

Encircle the pictures whose name
starts with letter c. (on the board)

IV. Evaluation
Worksheet: Find and color all the pictures whose name starts with letter
c. (on the paper)

V. Assignment
Cut a picture that starts with a letter C. Then paste it on your notebook.
Write big and small letter Cc on your paper 5 times.