Sunday, October 27, 2013

Bats, Spiders and Webs...Oh, My!

It's an absolute must to learn about all things creepy and crawly before Halloween!  And that's exactly what we did - first came bats.

We read the book Stellaluna by Janell Cannon.


Our reading skill for the week was compare/contrast, so we compared and contrasted bats and birds.  We created a venn diagram and came up with facts about bats, birds and then facts that they both shared.


Other books we read to gather information were Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats and Bat Loves the Night.

The kids each picked a bat fact that they wrote and displayed on their bat craft.  I was amazed how much information the kids absorbed from our lessons.  They could've shared bat facts for days!




We introduced spiders with a National Geographic book called Spiders (how appropriate, right?).


We created a KWL chart to share what we already know about spiders, what we want to know about spiders and what we learned about spiders.


We also collected data on who was afraid of spiders and who wasn't - we analyzed our data to see if there were more of us afraid or not afraid.


I thought about testing our data by putting a spider on the carpet to see just how brave those 11 kids were! :)

We did get up close and personal (but only on paper) by examining the parts of a spider.


The kids each created their own spiders by labeling the parts and putting them on display in the room.





On Friday we did a fun art project.  We made marble paintings resembling spider webs.  This a great activity for fine motor skills too.  They turned out awesome!







Our final display outside of our rooms looks like this...


Ella had a birthday on Friday and we celebrated with delicious cupcakes that her mom brought in!


Our new Star Student is Gabriel Hooks!  Gabriel is very quiet, but he has opened up so much this year.  He loves to play outside at recess and really enjoys the songs we sing in class.  He does a great job following directions and loves to pick out of the treasure drawer!  Congrats to Gabriel.


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