Using "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" in the classroom

In my future classroom I would like to use The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. This book has always been a favorite of mine. I have always wanted to use this book in my classroom, after thinking about how I could use this book in my classroom I realized it could cover many different subject areas. There are many themes in The Very Hungry Caterpillar: the life cycle of a butterfly, the days of the week, counting and nutrition. There are many activites a teacher could do in a classroom with this book. For a math lesson-have a graph of all the different foods the caterpillar ate and have each student place an X under the column of the food which they would eat. For a science lesson have the students do a sequencing activity placing the correct cycle of a butterfly. For language arts create a classroom book called "The Very Hungry Kindergartner," each student can create a page for the book which includes a month and the food that the kindergartner ate in that month. With this activity students can focus on phonics, writing, and math. The teacher could ask questions about the sequencing of the story, and asking about the different foods which the caterpillar ate.

What makes writing worth reading?

Every person has a different interest in the material they may read. Depending on how much the material is interesting to a person depends on how much it is worth reading to the reader. Many people read for different reasons: entertainment, to learn something new, to be persuaded about a specific topic, etc. Depending on the reader and the readers purpose. depends on if the material is worth reading. The reading material must be interesting and on the readers level for it to be worth to the reader to read.
The quality of the reading is depended on the reader.
Therefore, I believe that each person has a different viewpoint on there choice of reading material that is interesting and worth reading to them.

Sticks & Stones

I remember this saying from when I was growing up. My mom and dad would always say "sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you" I disagree with this quote. I think words are very powerful, and can defintally hurt a person. Especially while you are in elementary school things that other students say to you, can be very hurtful. An example of this is whenever I would do something bad, my parents would sometimes say that they were "disappointed" in me. Whenever they would say that one word, I would feel so bad because I never wanted to dissapoint my mom and dad.

Learning Language

While in school I learned language arts through phonics. We would have worksheets where you had to match the picture with the correct sounds. I also learned language from phonics at home. My mom would buy the books which had sound endings on them. For example, words with -er, -ar endings. I believe my experience with phonics was a positive experience. I am not very familiar with whole language, but know that memorization, and meanings in popular with learning from a whole language style.
My experience with whole language has made me a better speller today. Even with very difficult words, if I listen to the sounds in the words I can usually spell it correctly. One thing that I wish I learned more in school was grammar and writing. I feel like these subjects were very much over looked while I was in elementary school.