Crawling With FUN!
My classroom has been "crawling" with fun the past two weeks as we have been learning about spiders! Unfortunately, I have a few first grade girls who have arachnophobia! :)
However, after getting to know more about spiders and how they are helpful, we all have a better understanding and less of a fear of them!
We even trapped a common house spider in my classroom to observe him for a day. Of course, we let him go.
Our spider study began with a KWL and looking at the fiction and non fiction books we would be reading whole group.
We read Itsy Bitsy Spider, by Keith Chapman. It's a cute rhyming story about a silly spider who floats on his silk visiting barnyard animals until he returns home to his mother. After reading the book, we brainstormed things we would do if we had a pet spider for a little creative writing and a cute spider craftivity!!
If I had a pet spider, we would catch ladybugs together.
Since I am so new to blogging, I am feeling the freebies! Here is this Spider Writing/Craftivity for you if you'd like it!!
We read lots of our non fiction books and make a booklet with spider characteristics and types of spiders. We discussed features of non fiction texts.
The kids made a "Web of Learning" Folder to put all of the work we would be doing with our spider theme!
Here is some of the spider themed work we did!
The class LOVED the Spider Headbands game the best! They each made a spider headband and got to draw a fact card to put on their heads. They did this one at a time and classmates gave them clues to what the word was on their heads.
All of these activities came from my FUN with Spiders Unit on TPT if you are at all interested.
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