SPIDERS!!!

Teaching is amazing when you can incorporate several subjects into one unit!! This week, I  was able to teach science, reading, and writing in one awesome unit! To start the week, I added webbing, paper spiders and spider facts to our classroom. As soon as the kiddos walked in on Monday, they were hooked!

All day long they were asking "When are we going to do science"?? When the time came, they were all ears! We started the unit discussing what we "think" we already know about spiders. Since we are starting informational texts, this was a great time to explore facts. I have a great group of kiddos this year that already have great background knowlege, so getting a list of things they think they already knew helped me guide my lessons!

Each day, we looked at a new passage, book, or Internet piece of information to learn even more about spiders. We touched on verbs and adjectives that relate to spiders.

Throughout the week, we collected facts about spiders that we thought were really cool and wrote them in our "Facts About Spiders" book. Since we are learning about informational writing, this was a great time to incorporate this. Even though the facts were very basic, they did a great job!

I could have stretched this unit out more than one week, but with all the neat things that I want to teach my kiddos in November, I kept the instruction to one week. Since we were ending the unit and Halloween is tomorrow, I wanted to incorporate fun activities to the end of the unit.

Our school is promoting "healthy snacks/foods, so I wanted to make sure I was adding that into my curriculum anytime I can! Once again, I wanted to fit in as much teaching as I can along with fun learning, so my kiddos got to choose a snack they wanted to make!

 

Our healthy snack choices were a witch's hand, a monster mouth, or a spider web! Each kiddo had to choose which snack they wanted to make. They followed the picture steps and made their snack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once their snack was made, I gave them a "How To Make" book. They had to write the steps they took to make their snack. I was sooo thrilled to see how easy it was for them to do!

 

 

As a concluding activity, those with great behavior all week wrapped me up like a mummy! YES, they used toilet paper! It was a blast!!!