caterpillar, caterpillar

THE WORLD AROUND US

M. has taken a deep interest in caterpillars. She already enjoyed reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Carle, and when one day last week I related it to her every day eating habits, that was when everything became real for her. I told her that if she ate too much chocolate she would become fat like the caterpillar and then she would have a big stomachache like it. She opened her eyes wide and she rubbed her belly to say "stomachache", she didn't ask for chocolate that day.

She started taking her caterpillar pull along toy with her every time we went out (in reality it is a snail, put taking the shell off, it may look like a caterpillar and I won't argue with M. on the fact that it is actually a snail if she is happy with it as a caterpillar)

When yesterday I told her we would go to the park to look for caterpillars she was all excited. We found one caterpillar and many worms, which we classified as caterpillars for the day. She explored her surroundings in search for caterpillars, she liked looking at them, how they looked like and moved, she didn't like to touch them, but eventually she held one in her hand for 2 seconds.

Back at home, I drew a caterpillar on an apple and I glued it on our seasons-tree; then we put on it some cotton wool as snow, so we created our winter season tree.

GARDENING

Our gardening experiment is also continuing. M. is in charge of watering our flowers when I remind her to do so. Very often we go and check on the progress, and we are really pleased to see that the giacints should be blooming soon. The tulips are still a bit sleepy but are growing too.

COLOURS

We are continuing our discovery of colours and their names.

I managed to get her focus for 2 other colours: orange and purple/bourdeux.

For this two colours I showed her how mixing 2 different colours together we can obtain a third colour. First I mixed red and yellow to obtain orange. Then I let her experiment the colour orange on a paper. After that I mixed red and blue to obtain pourple (the proportion of red was a bit too high so I rather obtain a colour closer to bourdeux, but this doesn't matter for the porpuse of our learning the colours). M. painted another paper with the pourple colour and after both papers dried I hung them on the wall next to the rest of the colour we learn to recognise.

A bit by bit I will show her most of the colours. Our journey is just at the beggining.