Extensions Have lunch together as a group. Have the students decide what foods are most important and why they should eat these foods. Make a friendship fruit salad. Have each student bring in a piece of fruit from home. Prepare the salad and enjoy! Make nutritious snacks. Make caterpillars using the bottom of egg cartons. Use pictures from a magazine or drawn by the students to make a healthy dinner and glue images on a paper plate. Do a similar activity gluing the food onto a brown paper lunch bag. Words with Special Meanings (for understanding only, not to be tested) Diet: food and drink consumed. Exoskeleton: hard outer skeleton on all insects. Hypothesis (hypotheses, plural): a tentative explanation for a question that can be tested using experimentation. Molt: shed old exoskeleton. Observe: to look at and pay special attention to what something does, what it looks like, and how it changes. Predict: to guess what you believe will happen. Bibliography Adoff, Arnold. Eats. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, 1971 Barrett, Judy. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978 Bloom, James. Caterpillars, Cocoons and Butterflies. OH: CSS, 1988 Callahan, J.O. Herman & Marguerite, A Worm and A Butterfly. Cambridge, MA: Yellow Moon Press. Carle, Eric. A Very Hungry Caterpillar. Illustrated by the author. New York: Philomel Books, 1987. 32 pp. Grades PS-2. Chubby Board Books. Caterpillar Who Turned into a Butterfly. New York: S & S Trade, 1980. 16 pp. Grades PS-K. Darby,Gene. What is a Butterfly? Illustrated by Lucy and John Hawkinson. Chicago: Benefic Press, 1958 Fischer-Nagel, Heiderose. Life of the Butterfly. Illustrated by Andreas Fischer-Nagel. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1987. Grades 4-6. Florian, Douglas. Discovering Butterflies. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1986 Gibbons, Gail. Monarch Butterfly. New York: Holiday House, 1989. 32 pp. Grades PS-3. Hoban, Russell. Bread and Jam for Francis. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 1962 Hogner, Dorothy Childs. Butterflies. New York: Thomas Crowell Company, 1962 Hooker, Y. The Little Green Caterpillar. New York: Putnam Publishing Group, 1989. 24 pp. Grades PS-1. Jelly Bean Books. Ten Loopy Caterpillars. Illustrated by Rodney Mc Rae. Mexico: Ottenheimer Publishers, 1988 Kennedy, Mary. Wings. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1980 Kent, Jack. The Caterpillar and the Polliwog. Illustrated by the author. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1982. 32 pp. Grades K-4. Linton, Margaret and Trevor Terry (editors) and Janet Culkins. The Life Cycle of a Butterfly. New York: The Bookwright Press, 1988. 32 pp. Grades 1-6. Mendoza, George. The Caterpillar Man. Illustrated by Joseph Low. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. O'Hagan, Caroline. It's Easy to Have a Caterpillar Visit You. Illustrated by Judith Allan. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1980. Overbeck, Cynthia. The Butterfly Book. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, Co., 1978. Grades 2-4. Patent, Dorothy. Life Cycle of a Butterfly. New York: Holiday House, 1986. 40 pp. Grades 3-7. Paulus, Trina. Hope for The Flowers. New York: Paulist Press, 1972. Reidel, Marlene. From Egg to Butterfly. Illustrated by the author. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1981. 24 pp. Grades PS-3. Ridout, Ronald and Michael Holt. The Life Cycle Book of Butterflies. Illustrated by Tony Payne. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1974. Ryder, Joanne. Where Butterflies Grow. New York: Lodestar Books, E.P. Dutton, 1989. Selsam, Millicent E. and Joyce Hunt. A First Look at Caterpillars. New York: Walker and Co., 1974 Selsam, Millicent E. Terry and The Caterpillars. Illustrated by Arnold Lobel. New York: Harper and Row, 1962. Sterling, Dorothy. Caterpillars. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1961. 63 pp. Thompson, Susan L. Diary of a Monarch Butterfly. Illustrated by Judy LaMotte. New York: Walker and Company, 1976. Turin, Adela and Syvie Selig. Of Cannons and Caterpillars. New York: Writers and Readers, 1980. 32 pp. Grades 3-6. Wang, Herbert H. and Arvis Stewart. Our Caterpillars. Illustrated by Marie Nonast Bohlen. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977. 32 pp. Whalley, Paul. Butterfly and Moth-Eyewitness Books. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1988. 64 pp.

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