Spider, Spiders, Spiders!

It all started with a picture and a WONDER was sparked!  A student was looking at a book and found an interesting picture of a wolf spider.  She excitedly showed this picture to her peers.  Everyone was very curious and wanted to know more about spiders.

This week we worked on answering some of the wonders we had.  We read books, watched video clips and even pretended to spiders.

We wondered how long it takes for a spider to spin a web.

We had to go over and under and take our time....we think spiders work very hard!

We wondered about what spiders look like and made our own to show what we learned.  We know that spiders have 8 legs, 8 eyes, two body parts, fangs and spinners.  

Then we created individual spider webs by covering a few marbles with paint and then rolling them around in a bucket.  It was like watching a spider build a web right in front of our eyes.

Just for fun, we sang and danced to spider songs and learned a spider poem. We are getting very good at finding the words we know and recognizing rhyming words.

We learned a new spider math game too.  To play this game, you have to take turns rolling a dice and move your spider clip up the water spout. (Race to 20)