 Five little spiders jumping on the web. One fell off and bumped his head! Momma called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more spiders jumping on the web!" Four little spiders jumping on the web. One fell off and bumped his head! Momma called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more spiders jumping on the web!" Three little spiders jumping on the web. One fell off and bumped his head! Momma called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more spiders jumping on the web!" Two little spiders jumping on the web. One fell off and bumped his head! Momma called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more spiders jumping on the web!" One little spider jumping on the web. One fell off and bumped his head! Momma called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more spiders jumping on the bed!" We made these adorable little spider finger puppets to go with our spider webbing and recited our adapted chant while adding and subtracting spiders. They LOVED this activity and we were able to do this again and again and send home five little spiders along with their webs with each child. This is a GREAT math and counting activity and they don't even know they are LEARNING!!! Here is the template... We made and used the smaller spider by cutting out small paper strips and taping them to the backside of each little spider. The larger spiders are the template for the spiders we made with our cottonballs to be on top of our spiderweb pix from Monday. 
 During our "web" discussions we talked about many things. We discussed that webs are sticky and that the reason why they are sticky is to help the spider catch food. To demonstrate how it feels to be a bug on a web we put out our clear contact paper and made webs with strips of colored paper. We put the strips this way and that way...we observed that it was very difficult to peel the paper up after it had been stuck down. The stickiness of the contact paper really made it REAL to the children how a bug must feel! After each child was finished weaving their web, they picked out spiders and placed them at the top, bottom and middle. We then finished off each web with an additional piece of sticky clear contact paper to seal the web for going home :). YUM! This has NOTHING to do with webs...but everything to do with October, kids, preschool and CANDY :))!! Thanks to a great chef and friend, Chef Vito Palmietto, we obtained an easy and DELISH recipe for homemade butterfingers that they all had a little hand in making and eating and eating some more... First we melted and mixed one bag of candy corn in the microwave...stir, stir, stir. We then added an equal amount of creamy peanut butter...stir, stir, stir...Then set them on wax paper in a 9x12 pan to cool overnight. Melted choco almond bark...coat, coat, coat and viola! The next pic tells it ALL! 
Pet SPIDERS! The pet rock turtles were such a hit a few weeks ago that we again decided to go on a hunt for the perfect size rocks for our pet spiders. We made the following templates and cut these out of felt. The children glued and glued after they found JUST the right rock. This takes quite a bit of effort and decision making. Some of the children just picked any 'ole rock, but others are very decisive. They wandered the play yard picking up a rock, putting it down, picking up another one, putting it down...then FINALLY the RIGHT one :)) Smiles all around!! Of course, we HAVE to have the googley eyes! We again discussed and counted legs, eyes and the purpose of spiders and their webs. We discussed that spiders LIVE on their webs, they use their webs for hunting, capturing and keeping their food. We talked about how some webs are HUGE and some are tiny but that spiders make them ALL. That leads me to the YouTube videos that were WONDERFUL visuals for our preschoolers to view on how a spider makes a web. These two YouTube videos AMAZED the children. They wanted to see them again and again... They really are incredible. Of course, this DOES bring about the Itsy, Bitsy Spider song!!! It's just a natural conclusion :)).
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Alyson Strecker
10/4/2012 03:22:01 am
I love these updates, and the spider activity sounds so much fun! Leave a Reply. |
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