Spiders crawling... EVERYWHERE!
Today we used our prior knowledge of spiders and built upon that using books to complete the activity! To begin, we shared facts with each other. Then we pondered on some questions we had about spiders. After we made a list of questions, I grouped the children up in small groups and gave them books and a note card. We rotated the books around so each person had an opportunity to look at all books. They were expected to write down two facts on their note cards.
Once the books were rotated completely around, we grouped back together and shared what we had learned. Each child shared- I strongly encourage participation! (Research has shown that the more a child participates, the more successful they are in school- academically and socially.) We then filled out our bubble map on the board.
Afterwards, students were given a bubble map worksheet to complete. They had a choice to fill in the bubbles using what we wrote on the board, what they wrote on their note cards or choosing descriptive words from a pile.
Our exit activity for this project was creating a spiders web. They had to glue on "silk" to make the web and use a stamp ink pad/finger to create the spider. The spider was expected to have eight legs and fangs- yikes!! ;)
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