We started out the week with our spider poem/ finger-play: My Spider. I love this poem and so do the kids, since their hands get to be the spider crawling all around.
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We read all about spiders in non-fiction format. My fave is Are You a Spider? by Tudor Humphries. The kids loved this book and it led us to compare ourselves with spiders.We did a venn diagram to share similarities and differences. I forgot to take a pic of the whole class version, DARN! But, it wasn't anything fancy, just on the white board. Then the kids filled out this one...
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Later we put all of our spider knowledge into a circle map to get us started on our spider writing.
I actually make a rough version on the white board with ALL of their ideas first, but for writing I narrow it down to some of the more specific details and add pictures to help my ELs.
The original circle map that we did as a whole class... so messy.. AHH! |
They also did a web sums sort. Taking number sentences on spider and fly cards and matching them to the correct web.
We did a graphing activity with the story Miss Spider's Tea Party. First we voted weather or not we would have tea with Miss Spider if we were insects.They wrote their yes/no onto little tea cups.
ok, ok... I know she's a little creepy, but it sorta looks like the book's illustrations... right? |
Then we analyzed the graph. We have been working on reading graphs, interpreting data, and tallying, so this worked out perfectly. I wish I had gotten a pic of a kids, but we did it whole class so they looked about the same.
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Okay, that was a lot..... so many spider things, so little time :) Have a happy weekend!
4 comments:
Thanks for the cute spider ideas!!
Laurie :)
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Thank you for sharing! I love some of your ideas and have put them in a file for next year.
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I love this simple, quick, and practical idea! The rewards in joy, appreciation are probably incalculable. Thanks for sharing.
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