Spiders

Creepy and crawly, but oh so cool! Last week was spider week in my room. We had a lot of fun talking about these eight legged arachnids. We started by reading a nonfiction story and used our learning to generate a list of spider facts. The students then turned these facts into a spider fact book.

The next day, we read The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.  The students made their own spiders and decorated with oil pastels.  Then, they wrote describing sentences about the spiders they created. This was a great way to talk to the kids about words that describe!

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My favorite spider activity this week was an introduction to opinion writing.  After reading Aaaarrgghh, Spider by Lydia Monks, we created a class t-chart. The students had to decide whether they thought spiders were CREEPY or COOL. Once we made the chart as a class, my kids then wrote about their opinions. They had so much fun sharing these papers with each other!

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