This was originally done last week but for some reason it failed to post and I had to redo it.
Today we worked on Spiders. John and I figured the kids were going to be wired on candy and so we focused the lesson on multiple areas so that the kids wouldn't get too out of control. Surprisingly they were well behaved and so the lesson went pretty well. As before we had them watch an 8 min clip from the Bill Nye Spiders episode. It was a good way for the kids to get focused on what we were going to work on today. The 1st and 2nd graders have been studding insects all year and we thought this would be a great intro to another bug lesson. They did really well with watching the video and because it was something they were already learning in school they were able to connect to it more. They found it really interesting that a Daddy Long Leg is not actually a spider. The Kindergartners were fascinated by learning about the body parts of the spider.....it may have been the candy too......hmm.
After the video we asked them to go to Google Images and find their favorite spider. Many of them, do to knowledge or fear, picked the black widow spider. Many of these kids know the danger of a black widow but one little girl picked it because she liked the color. Through this entire time they were strangely quite.... all just really into what they were doing. After finding two spiders they liked, we asked that they draw them out on TuxPaint. As I said before, many had picked Black Widows so they were able to get done rather quickly, so we had them get on the National Geographic site and find a spider from another country. Many were finding spiders from the rain forest and said they wanted to use them in a class project. I felt this was a great connection to what they were doing in their class room studies. Although it is a very basic tool to just Google an image, many of these kids don't even know how to type yet because they are still learning their alphabet. This is a good way for them to use their phonics and to learn how to use the desk tops.
I think next time, we might try to
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