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Spiders October is a great time to study about spiders. This unit will be used with my group of 4-6th grade CD students. Some of my older special education students complete a unit on Charlotte's Web . Many of the ideas for this unit are links that you will follow to various sites. As with all theme units our class reads lots of books. Often we will write brief book reports about the books we read in class.
Theme Ideas Day 1 Make a spider book cover. This booklet will hold all the spider pages and projects completed in the unit. Introduce spider facts. Students write the facts on spider paper.
Day 2 Spider printout - http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/subjects/arachnids/label/extanatomy/index.shtml
Day 3 Spider Cooking - students will complete one of the cooking projects. To extend the lesson students write the recipe and draw a picture of their completed project.
Day 4 Spider Art Project - pompom spider
Day 5 Complete several pages from the spider shape book - http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/subjects/arachnids/spider/shapebook/
Day 6 Write a spider story. Students brainstorm ideas and collectively write a story. They copy each sentence on their spider paper as I write it on large chart paper.
Day 7 Spider Phonics - students write a lists of words that begin with s, w, and sp.
Day 8 Glitter spider web Spider guessing jar - place many spider rings in a jar, student guess how many are in the jar. Play - Where is the spider? A student leaves the group, someone hides a plastic spider in the instructional area. When the student comes back to the group his classmates help him find the spider by saying warmer or colder as he move around trying to find the spider.
Day 9 Spider Snack Finish pages from spider shape book. Spider math - students write story problems about spiders. Example - one spider is sitting on a leaf, three more join him. How many spiders are there altogether?
Day 10 Spider Quiz - http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/classroom/quiz/spiders.shtml If time make the balloon spider - http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/crafts/halloween/balloonspider/
Spider Facts -Spiders are not insects. Insects have three body parts and six legs. -Spiders have eight eyes, eight legs, two body parts, outside skeletons, and fangs. They do not have antennas or wings. Males are smaller than the females. -Most spiders are meat eaters. -Some spiders live underwater. They use a cocoon filled with air to breath. -Spiderlings are baby spiders that hatch from silk covered egg sacs. -Each kind of spider knows how to spin a certain pattern of a web when it hatches. -Spiders eat millions of insects a year. They create beautiful webs and are useful. -Not all spiders spin webs. -Spiders are oviparous, which means their babies come from eggs.
Spider CookingUse chocolate sandwich cookies, attach licorice whips for legs, "glue" on M&M eyes with frosting. Enjoy! You could also use the chocolate covered marshmallow cookie for a fatter looking spider.
Begin with a ritz cracker, spread with peanut butter, attach pretzel sticks for legs, add raisin eyes.
Make a web on a paper plate by using the cheese that comes in the can. Add a cracker spider for a tasty treat!
Make a web from licorice whips.
Toast bread, spread with butter or peanut butter. Use a cookie cutter to make spider shapes.
Spider Art Pompom Spider - http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/crafts/animals/pompomspider/
Glitter Spider Web - black construction paper background, squeeze glue in a web pattern, sprinkle with glitter. Attach a plastic spider.
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