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We have learned a lot about spiders. We made these spiders that have 2 body parts, 8 eyes and 8 legs. Inspired by... We made marble painting spider webs, ourselves into spiders and wrote our favorite spider fact on the back. Listen to us read our favorite spider fact...

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Labeling the parts of a spider!

Last week we chatted all about BAT WEEK, so I figured it was only fitting to follow-up with some ideas for Spider Week! As I’ve said before, teaching foundational concepts and skills using these two creatures as the thematic vehicle for instruction is so very fitting for this time of the year. Especially on campuses …

Writing this blog post makes me miss first grade so much! This was the first big room transformation we did at our school that year. We were learning about spiders, so it was the perfect transformation for the week of Halloween. We used lots of spider web and spiders all over our classrooms, which I will share in this post. Our interactive read aloud that week was Spiders by Gail Gibbons. We covered lots of informational text standards but focused on main topic and retell of key details for…

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Now that it's October, it's time to talk about all things creepy and crawly! I may not be the biggest fan of spiders, but over the years I have found that

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Here are just a couple things we did during our spider unit this week! First, we started our unit by graphing if we are or are not afraid of spiders. Here is what our class graph showed. Next, we filled in the KWL Chart. We added what we already knew about spiders and what we wanted to learn this week about spiders. Throughout the week I read numerous Non-Fiction books about spiders. Here are some of the books I read: We talked about the difference between Spiders/Arachnids and Insects. We…

This past week we worked on strategies for addition. One of the more fun ones is using the doubles. I teach doubles four a couple of weeks so that the kiddos get some BIG time practice and hopefully start to memorize them! We always start out with The Doubles Rap. I learned this when I taught SAXON math and have incorporated it ever since! The kids just love it... and we add some pretty funny movements to reinforce (video would be hilarious... me, getting my rap on, boy oh boy!). I have…