.We jump right into our first craft for the day. They roll a marble, that has been dipped into white paint, onto a circle of black construction paper. They do this fine, and both Preston and Alex understand to tip their tray to pull off the effect. 
We even add some cotton webbing to the outside with a spider ring to really bring our web to life. 
The next night Alex spots a huge brown spider crawling on the front porch, I can't help but think his greeting is by no accident.Activity 1 is all about L-animals as we do handwriting on this letter for the last time. I have included some small texture crafts to add to our handwriting pages, giving each animal some more life. We start with L is for Mary had a Little Lamb. We do a CD reading of this, and sing it to ourselves a couple times. They are quiet as they listen. I catch Alex singing the song three or four times that evening and the next day in the car.
They work quietly and peacefully, the little lambs that they are:
L is for Lion, so we read May I Bring a Friend again (the same book we used for the P for Please activity a couple weeks ago). For Halloween, the little boy in the story brings some animals in masks to visit the King and Queen. We must guess who they are. I find some masks 2 for .75 cents at the dollar store for all of us to wear to make this reading even more fun.
We trace L for Lion and glue a yarn mane to our picture. 
We trace L for Lion and glue a yarn mane to our picture. It is another sunny day so we go Outside for a walk in the woods - there is no agenda with this walk, except to just enjoy the last of our autumn days, and to notice the beautiful colors around us.
Preston and Alex running full speed.
Preston and Amy are holding hands again. Alex is lagging behind,, she is my nature girl, and would be outside all day if I let her, so she is busy picking up some of the pretty-colored leaves she finds.
Preston is walking slow, telling everyone to be quiet "sshh." He is hoping to see some wildlife. We do end up watching some birds at the feeders before we go inside.
Preston and Alex running full speed.
Preston and Amy are holding hands again. Alex is lagging behind,, she is my nature girl, and would be outside all day if I let her, so she is busy picking up some of the pretty-colored leaves she finds.
Preston is walking slow, telling everyone to be quiet "sshh." He is hoping to see some wildlife. We do end up watching some birds at the feeders before we go inside. Activity 2 begins with a reading of Miss Spider's Tea Party. 
A great counting book, Miss Spider is lonely and tries to invite some insects for tea. But as one page of the book shows, four bumblebees buzz by stating, "We would be fools to take our tea with anyone so spidery." The book continues the count up with rhyme (six ants...seven dainty butterflies) but not one wants to come for fear of Miss Spider. Poor Miss Spider is beside herself, and even cries in sadness.
A great counting book, Miss Spider is lonely and tries to invite some insects for tea. But as one page of the book shows, four bumblebees buzz by stating, "We would be fools to take our tea with anyone so spidery." The book continues the count up with rhyme (six ants...seven dainty butterflies) but not one wants to come for fear of Miss Spider. Poor Miss Spider is beside herself, and even cries in sadness. We turn the page to see her help a moth get dry after a thunderstorm. Word of mouth carries her good deed, and brings all the bugs to finally sit down to a cup of tea. A good story not only for number counting but also a good lesson in judging others with a little more kindness. Spiders really aren't that scary, I tell my students as I motion them over to their very own spider tea party.
Their placemat is a Miss Spider printable, with an alphabet dot to dot for the spider body, a counting of spider legs, and a discussion of up and down since this spider is facing upside down. a chocolate bug fills the body. Each student must find their placemat by finding their name written on a bug placecard. The best part though is the spider web napkin with our spider cupcake. Thank you to Angie for this yummy treat. Although Allen and me search a few stores for plastic bugs with no luck, I do find some scrapbook stickers of party-themed bugs with googly eyes to top our teacakes.
Allen runs out that morning to find our spider cups for our bug juice which is Welch's grape juice.
Once they arrive to their seat, they are quite excited. Amy is just not sure on the whole bug theme but Alex is quick to take her first swipe of cupcake frosting. Preston just stares in bug wonder.
There is no problem eating this snack today. Alex is about to dive into the cupcake after eating the chocolate first, of course, since she is a chocolate lover like someone else I know. Preston has a full mouth and is eating the entire top of his cupcake for that yummy frosting. Amy is also busy sucking, in bug-style fashion, on the chocolate.
After our bug juice and spider cakes, we do a L is for ladybug craft which is full of learning, as we must trace some more L's, add L-shaped legs, and use color red.
After glueing some bug googly eyes, we have fun with some dot play. Students listen to teacher and add the correct number of dots to their ladybug. Once they get their counting right, they can then glue whatever number of dots they prefer.
Alex with 4...Amy with......something. She has joined teacher to help with the hand motions.
We are concentrating hard, even Amy is using both hands, one hand to hold her other fingers up as she counts 1, 2, 3! I have a very hard time keeping a straight face, they are just too cute to watch but this is serious counting business and teacher is proud!
Their placemat is a Miss Spider printable, with an alphabet dot to dot for the spider body, a counting of spider legs, and a discussion of up and down since this spider is facing upside down. a chocolate bug fills the body. Each student must find their placemat by finding their name written on a bug placecard. The best part though is the spider web napkin with our spider cupcake. Thank you to Angie for this yummy treat. Although Allen and me search a few stores for plastic bugs with no luck, I do find some scrapbook stickers of party-themed bugs with googly eyes to top our teacakes.
Allen runs out that morning to find our spider cups for our bug juice which is Welch's grape juice.Once they arrive to their seat, they are quite excited. Amy is just not sure on the whole bug theme but Alex is quick to take her first swipe of cupcake frosting. Preston just stares in bug wonder.There is no problem eating this snack today. Alex is about to dive into the cupcake after eating the chocolate first, of course, since she is a chocolate lover like someone else I know. Preston has a full mouth and is eating the entire top of his cupcake for that yummy frosting. Amy is also busy sucking, in bug-style fashion, on the chocolate.After our bug juice and spider cakes, we do a L is for ladybug craft which is full of learning, as we must trace some more L's, add L-shaped legs, and use color red.
After glueing some bug googly eyes, we have fun with some dot play. Students listen to teacher and add the correct number of dots to their ladybug. Once they get their counting right, they can then glue whatever number of dots they prefer.Our tea party ends with a game of musical teacups. Taped in a circle on the floor, are numbered teacups 1 through ten that I have cut from a workbook. They follow the cups around in the circle, and when the music stops, they look at the cup and must recognize their number....
Once they have their number, they find the corresponding numbered teacup at our "tea table" for a candy or spider ring prize.
While munching on their candy prizes, students work on their Miss Spider workbook, filled with pages and pages of learning all about bugs. The dollar store and the "web", came in "handy" for these. (All the learning is getting to my vocab!) Elmo's Bug Coloring book is purchased for a dollar, and it has a nice poster for decorating,
plus I run off a few printables of Miss Spider off the Nick Jr. site. We will work on our "bug books" throughout the next couple weeks.
Class ends with our hands again, starting with drum play and another reading of Dr. Seuss "dum, ditty, dum, ditty, dum, dum,"
Once they have their number, they find the corresponding numbered teacup at our "tea table" for a candy or spider ring prize.
While munching on their candy prizes, students work on their Miss Spider workbook, filled with pages and pages of learning all about bugs. The dollar store and the "web", came in "handy" for these. (All the learning is getting to my vocab!) Elmo's Bug Coloring book is purchased for a dollar, and it has a nice poster for decorating,
plus I run off a few printables of Miss Spider off the Nick Jr. site. We will work on our "bug books" throughout the next couple weeks.Class ends with our hands again, starting with drum play and another reading of Dr. Seuss "dum, ditty, dum, ditty, dum, dum,"
followed by our finger counting:
Ten!
Alex has had it, Preston is holding up 8:
Alex with 4...Amy with......something. She has joined teacher to help with the hand motions.
We are concentrating hard, even Amy is using both hands, one hand to hold her other fingers up as she counts 1, 2, 3! I have a very hard time keeping a straight face, they are just too cute to watch but this is serious counting business and teacher is proud!
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