Spiders and bats, oh my!

We did a lot of research this week on spiders and bats! We read informational books and recorded many facts.

Drew wrote: Spiders can climb!

We also learned the word "arachnophobia"! We graphed how many students are afraid of spiders and how many aren't afraid!  They completed their own bar graph and tallied the information!

Most of our class isn't afraid of spiders!

To practice our Word of the Week, we sang the Itsy Bitsy Spider song and counted how many times the word "the" was in it!  The class was so excited to hear how many times it appears in the song.  We practiced the word by writing it to fill in the blanks and created our own "waterspouts" for the spider to climb!

Zayne's "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" craft

Using our Letter of the Week, Aa, we practiced phonetic spelling as well as learning how to make word families with the letter.  When spelling word families, we spell correctly! (i.e. mat, sat, rat, man, tan, can)

We made these Word Family spiders with the "-at" and "-an" families.  To practice reading the words fluently, we played a fun game!  I read a word aloud and the students had to quickly find the word, put the magic rock on it, and raise their hands!  The first table to find the word received a point! (All of the tables won in a 4 way tie!)

Julian's word family spider