Dear Parents,
On Monday we played in the yard all morning. We read two books about spiders, sang The Itsy Bitsy Spider, and made spiders using pipe cleaners. The children chose between making black or red spiders. When we came in from the yard, someone found a teeny tiny spider in our classroom. After we all got close observations of him, we left him on the windowsill.
While Emily was taking pictures of everyone, we added eyes to our spiders. The children pretended they were all babies of our big spider that has been hanging in the classroom since October. Most of our spiders have one or two eyes although we read in a book that spiders can have up to eight eyes. We saw pictures of two, four, six, and eight eyed spiders. We read Please Don’t Step On Us! and Be Nice To Spiders. Both books said spiders like to eat insects that bite us.
On Wednesday, while half the class was in music, drumming and dancing, the rest of us played with green play dough in the classroom. Children made snowmen, snakes, a tarantula, a scorpion, pancakes, balls, snails, a drill, and a volcano.
We’re also reading: The Very Busy Spider, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, When I Feel Angry, Be Kind, Rotten Ralph, and Your Brain.
On Thursday morning we got three sticks from the yard, and took turns weaving ribbon around and around the sticks, to create a big spider web. During circle everyone took turns putting their spider in the web.
In the big room we had turns playing in our dirt bin. We added pretend worms to it. Someone asked, “Is this a compost bin?”
On Friday we started the morning building magnet tile homes for our bugs, playing with our potions, and saying good morning to all the spiders in our web. Some of us joined the tangram table where we built a giant honeycomb. The bees were busy buzzing, and one friend found a single tangram block that was not like the others. We decided to make that one our queen bee. We built castles with blocks, buried worms in our compost and ran laps in the big room.
Have a nice long weekend,
Therese and Nicole