Spiders!

We studied spiders last week. P wanted to study spiders after studying dinosaurs and owls! Next he wants to study Hawks, but we'll see if he still wants to study them, when I can get to them in January. I've been letting P pick a topic and we'll do a unit study around that topic. He really loves doing this as he is interested in it and just soaks up what we are studying. We have some fun units coming up, The Real Thanksgiving and a Christmas' Around the World unit study. 


Our spider lapbook: 

We did a crayon rubbing of a spider web in the book The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle.

  We went on a spider hunt and found quite a few spiders. I was really surprised how many spiders we did find in such a short amount of time! I couldn't get good pictures of most of the spiders, but we did find lots!

The Spider is in the very middle.

We also made these cool spiders for our door, as decorations for Halloween! The kids really love moving these around! (We glued magnets to spider rings, after cutting off the ring part.)

We made a spider web on the floor with painters tape. The kids had tons of fun being spiders and catching sticky bugs (and eachother!) in the web. This picture was taken many days after lots of fun with it!

Then we did sparkly spider webs and glued some spiders on them. 

We watched some spider videos, the kids especially liked the trap door spider video. 

We really enjoyed this book about spiders. It told about all different kinds and the kids loved looking at the pictures and reading the cool facts. 

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