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Monday Read 'The Very busy Spider' by Eric Carle *Before sharing book, invite children to share what they have done so far during their very busy day. Write down answers and compare. *With white yarn pass around to the children while they are telling stories about what they have done....look we made a web! *Talk about the things that we do during the day and make a picture chart to hang on the wall. ....what's next? * Textured spider web. Make a spider web on paper with glue. Let the kids make them. Tomorrow we will make a rubbing of the web by placing a white sheet on top and rubbing with a black crayon. Add brown construction paper strips to the edge and a spider...or 10. *Black Playdough with silver sparkles. Add toothpicks, pasta, pipecleaners *Black crape paper for the climber *Mass Spiders for estimating in a jar *White beans in the sensory bin with plastic spiders *Real spiders in aquariam shaped container with mirror in the background to see up close how spiders work. Have several containers for different kinds of spiders. Crayon tray with black, grey, white crayons and a red, yellow and brown watercolor wash. Tuesday Read 'Little miss muffet' * why was Little miss muffet afraid? what if spider was friendly? How would you be a friendly spider? what is a tuffet? Curds and whey?If little miss muffet hadn't run away what would have happend? Write it down for a group story. * Craft...spiders out of egg cartons. Paint one hump of the egg carton black. add pipe cleaner legs and eyes. add an elastic string. Watch out little miss muffet. *Spider web prints using kitchen gadgets *Geo boards *Web boards with plastic spiders and numbers from 1-10. Each web board gets a number and the children add spiders accordingly. Wednesday Read 'Be nice to spiders' by *Web boards with plastic flies and numbers from 1-10. Each web board gets a number and the children add the flies accordingly. *Cut and glue pieces of yarn to a black piece of paper to make a web. Add spiders -- flies--bugs....as many as they like. *Paint with strips of yarn. Connect it to a clothspin for kids who don't want to get messy. Add plastic flies. Thursday Read 'Anansi and the talking melon' by *Was it nice to trick the elephant? What else could Anansi have done to pass his loney time away? *Homes for a spider...Styrophome trays, Playdough (the kind that hardens) sticks, rocks, web, plastic spiders, flies, and bugs. *Handprint spiders...Paint their hands with black paint and print onto the paper with palms touching each other. when dry add eyes. Lots! How many eyes does your spider have? *While they are letting their hand prints dry, I add more black paint to the table and let them fingerpaint. If they like their prints they can put a piece of paper on top to capture it. Friday |
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