HOMESCHOOL WEEKLY WRAP UP ~ WK OF 10/11 (SPIDERS!)

We decided to do a week lesson on spiders, not because of halloween because we do not celebrate halloween but because we saw 8 giant Banana Spiders at our local zoo recently.

We made a spider lapbook using the following to make resources:

What have you learned about spiders - PRINT OUT

Several printouts HERE (life cycle, webs, etc.)

I also found resources from our Evan Moor Giant Science Resource Book
Enchanted Learning

He drew the spider on the front of the lapbook

 Using a black paper plate - cutting slits along the slides and wrapping white yarn around it for the web & then printing out a spider coloring page & minimizing it, the kids coloring it, here's what you get:

My 5 year old's (the round things are magnetts, we hang their artwork on our doors inside the house)

My 3 year old's

Books we used for this week's spider lesson:

Eye View Bugs & Spiders

Ralph Masiello's Bug Drawing Book

Simon & Schuster Children's Guide to Insects & Spiders

I Wonder Why Spiders Spin Webs

Miss Spiders Tea Party

A few more crafts my 3 year old made this week:

using a toliet paper roll - he painted spiders

 I cut out some spider web & spider die cuts, he glued & painted them

I cut out a portion of a cardboard egg carton, & we made a spider

I took my kids to a new park during the week & they said they were "spiders" climbing up the web