Spiders

Spider Books

I'm a Little Spider

(sung to I'm a Little Teapot) by Sue Brown

 

I'm a little spider,

watch me spin.

If you'll be my dinner,

I'll let you come in.

Then I'll spin my web to hold you tight,

And Gobble you up in one big bite!

 

"The Spider Spins a Web"
(sung to the tune of "The Farmer In the Dell")
From The Mailbox

The spider spins a web,
The spider spins a web,
Round, round, up and down,
The spider spins a web.

Additional verses:
She spins it in and out.
She spins it back and forth.
She spins it good and strong.

The Spider Poem

 

Spiders are not insects,

Spiders have eight legs,

Spiders have four pair of eyes,

Spiders hatch from eggs.

 

Spider webs are sticky,

Spiders weave them tight,

Spiders spin that silky string,

Spiders weave webs right!

"Little Miss Muffet"
 Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider
And sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away!

"Crawl Like a Spider"
 (sung to the tune of
"Ten Little Indians")
From The Mailbox

Crawl, crawl, crawl like a spider.
Crawl, crawl, crawl like a spider.
Crawl, crawl, crawl like a spider.
Crawl around your web.

Replace the action word with:
jump, run, creep, sneak, pounce

The Silly Willy Spider

 

The silly willy spider

Crawled up on ________'s head!

It crawled all around

Then made a nice soft bed.

It wiggled down his/her shoulder

And jumped down to the floor.

Then the silly willy spider

Crawled to someone else for more!

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

 

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout.

Down came the rain and washed the spider out.

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain.

So the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.

 

The Spider In The Web

The spider in the web, the spider in the web
spin, spin, oh watch him spin,
The spider in the web.
The spider eats a_____ ( any kind of bug)
The spider eats a_____.
Spin, spin, oh watch him spin, the spider in the web.

Little Spider

 

See the little spider

Climbing up the wall,

See the little spider

Stumble and fall.

See the little spider

Tumble down the street,

See the little spider

Stop down at my feet.

Body Parts Song

(Tune: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes)

 

Cephalothorax, abdomen, abdomen.

Cephalothorax, abdomen, abdomen.

8 legs, 2 jaws, 2 pedipalps.

Lots of eyes and spinnerets, spinnerets.

Spiders

 

Spiderlings hatch from eggs.

Each one has eight tiny legs.

A spider has more eyes than you.

Most have eight, and you have two.

A spider has two body parts.

Across its web it quickly darts.

From a spider's spinnerets

Sticky spider silk jets.

Spiders feel the frantic tugs,

Of their favorite food, it's bugs!

A Spider

 

A spider spins

A web all day.

She has no time

To come and play.

 

She sits and waits

On a thread nearby

Until she traps

A delicious fly.

Spider On The Floor

Words by Bill Russell

 

There's a spider on the floor, on the floor.
There's a spider on the floor, on the floor.
Who could ask for any more,
than a spider on the floor.
There's a spider on the floor, on the floor.

Now the spider's on my leg; on my leg.
Oh the spider's on my leg, on my leg.
Oh, he's really big!
This old spider on my leg.
There's a spider on my leg, on my leg.

Now the spider's on my stomach, on my stomach.
Oh, the spider's on my stomach, on my stomach.

Oh, he's just a dumb old lummok,
this old spider on my stomach .
There's a spider on my stomach, on my stomach.

Now the spider's on my neck, on my neck.
Oh the spider's on my neck, on my neck.
Oh, I'm gonna be a wreck,

I've got a spider on my neck.
There's a spider on my neck, on my neck.

 

Now the spider's on my face, on my face.

Oh, the spider's on my face, on my face.

Oh, what a big disgrace,

I've got a spider on my face.

There's a spider on my face, on my face.

 

Now the spider's on my head, on my head.

Oh, the spider's on my head, on my head.

Oh, I wish that I were dead.

I've got a spider on my head.

There's a spider on my head, on my head.

 

But he jumps off...Now........

 

There's a spider on the floor, on the floor.

There's a spider on the floor, on the floor.

Who could ask for any more,

than a spider on the floor.

There's a spider on the floor, on the floor.

 

 

 

 

Opening Activity

 

I start the spider unit with a KWL. We list facts we know about spiders, and things we want to know about spiders, and at the end of the unit, we write the things that we learned about spiders.

 

Spider Facts

 

Spiders are not insects.  Insects have three body parts and six legs.

Spiders have eight eyes, eight legs, two body parts, outside skeletons, and fangs. They do not have antennas or wings. Males are smaller than the females.

Spiderlings are baby spiders that hatch from silk covered egg sacs. Each kind of spider knows how to spin a certain pattern of a web when it hatches.

Spiders eat millions of insects a year. They create beautiful webs and are useful.

Not all spiders spin webs.

Spiders are oviparous, which means their babies come from eggs.

Spider Vocabulary

 

abdomen

eight

cephalothorax

prey

spinnerets

eyes

legs

arachnid

spiderlings

oviparous

exoskeleton

molt

palps

spin

fangs

 

 

Language Arts Activities

 

After reading The Eency Weency Spider, we use sequence cards to sequence the story. 

 

After reciting "Little Miss Muffet many times the students sequence the rhyme with a cut and paste activity from Frank Shaffer.

 

I See __________ Spiders

I made a pocket chart for read the room activities.

 

I see one white spider.

I see two red spiders.

I see three blue spiders.

I see four yellow spiders.

I see five brown spiders.

I see six purple spiders.

I see seven black spiders.

 

 

 

Pocket Chart Rhymes

 

We use The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Little Miss Muffett (it looks like you can spell it two ways) for read the room activities.

 

 

 

 

Spider Phonics

Adapted from Kinder Korner

www.kinderkorner.com

 

Just like the "Batman" phonemic awareness activity, you can hum the "Spiderman" song and  replace the /sp/ sound with other letters.  I use these flashcards with letters so the students associate the sounds with the letter symbol.  The class responds with the correct version of the song.  My teaching buddy, Diane Eckhoff, thought of it and our wonderful instructional assistant, Mrs. Abendroth  made the flashcards for us.

 

 

Science Activities

 

Life Cycle of the Spider

Egg-A mother spider lays her eggs and then bundles them in a strong silk egg sac.

Spiderlings-In a few days baby spiders hatch, but they stay inside the egg sac for several weeks.  When the light-colored spiderlings emerge, they eat food provided by their mother.  As they grow and molt, their skin becomes darker.  They are soon making silk and are ready to leave the nest.

Young Spider-A young web-making spider spins its own web in a new location.  Its first web is small.  As the young spider grows, its webs get bigger.

Adult-The spider is now full grown.  The length of a spider's life varies.  Most can live up to one year, though some live much longer!

 

The students illustrate the life cycle of the spider.  They are stapled together to make a book.

 

Spider Factual Booklet

The Education Center, Inc. I Can Make It! I Can Read It! Fall

 

 

I copy a booklet for each child.

 

Spiders!

by ________

 

A spider has ________ legs.

Some spiders catch ________ in their webs.

Spiders hide from their ________.

 

8, food, enemies

 

Sequence a Spider Spinning a Web

A science sequencing activity from Evan-Moor Corp.

 

Label the Parts of a Spider

As a whole group class activity, we label the parts of the spider.  I have word cards that we tape in the correct places on my laminated poster.

 

 

White

We brainstorm things that can be white.

Pocket chart story-A ________can be white.

The student's illustrate their own "White" books.

Show and tell white things.

 

 

 

Math Activities

 

Graph-Are You Afraid of Spiders?

 

 

Once again, I had the students secretly put their picture in the yes or no container. 

 

Spider Workjob Mats

Borrowed from Kinder Korner

www.kinderkorner.com

I copied spider webs onto tag board.  I wrote 0-10 on the spider webs.  Spider rings are used as counters.  The students put the right number of spiders on each mat.

 

 

Estimation

This week we estimated spiders.  I have a reference of ten spiders in one Ziploc bag and the children estimate the other bag. 

 

Sort Spiders and Insects

Use plastic spiders and insects to sort.

 

 

Graph Spiders and Insects

Use plastic spiders and insects to graph.

 

 

Art Projects

 

Paper Plate Spiders

These were made by Mrs. Shindler's Pre-K Class

Paint small paper plates black.  Use pipe cleaners for legs.  Cut an oval from colored paper for the head.  Use acrylic paint for the eyes, nose, and mouth.  Glue a bow on if you want.  Hang these adorable spiders in a web for an added touch to your October bulletin board.

 

 

Styrofoam Ball Spiders

These were made by Ms. Sharp's Pre-K Class

Paint Styrofoam balls black and glue two together.  Stick pipe cleaners in for legs.  Glue on wiggle eyes and a pipe cleaner smile.

 

 

Spider Handprints

Borrowed from Kinder Korner

www.kinderkorner.com
For the background, use a 7x10 inch sheet of orange construction paper.  Paint each child's hands and fingers black -- do not paint their thumbs.  Press one hand down in the center of the paper, fingers pointing outwards.  Repeat with the other hand, overlapping the palm print.  When dry, add peel-and-stick ring reinforcer circles for eyes.  Then we used craft scissors to make crazy cuts around our spiders.  These were glued to a sheet of paper that said My spider is _______.  It has _______ body parts and _______ legs.  It can spin a _______.

 

 

Spider Marble Painting

Place an 8x8 inch square of black construction paper in a box lid.  Dip a marble in white paint and drop it onto the paper.  Roll the marble around by tilting the lid.  Continue until you have a spider web.

 

Marker and Glue Spider Webs

These were made by Mrs. Sliva's Kindergarten Class

Xerox a spider web for every student.  Let your students use markers to trace over the webs.  Then trace over again with glue.  Let them dry overnight and draw a spider in the web.

 

 

Pipe Cleaner and Yarn Spiders

These were made by Mrs. Huitt's ESL Kindergarten Class

Wrap yarn around 4 pipe cleaners and add wiggle eyes.

 

 

TLC Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet is in the Nursery Rhyme book from TLC.

www.tlclessons.com

 

 

Paper Plate Spiders
Paint paper plates black.  When dry, add eight legs made of 1x18 inch construction paper, folded accordion style.

 

Paper Plate Spider Webs

Paint paper plates black.  Let your students use glue to draw on a web.  Sprinkle glue with with glitter.

 

 

Construction Paper Spiders

Use one large rectangle and round into an oval.  The head is a square rounded into a circle.  Add eight 1x12 inch folded accordion legs.  Glue 2 wiggle eyes on the head.

 

 

 

 

There are spiders on our wall, on our wall.

 

Cooking

 

Marshmallow Spiders
For each spider, use one large marshmallow for the body and one small marshmallow for the head (attach with 1/2 a toothpick).  Make eyes from mini M&Ms, legs from pretzel sticks.  Cover with chocolate sauce, if desired.

 

Oreo Cookie Spiders 
Use an Oreo for the body and the head.   Twist apart the cookie.  Use pretzels for the legs.  Use decorating gel for the eyes.

 

 

Edible Spiders

borrowed from Mrs. Sirois' Farm
Ingredients:

2 round crackers
8 pretzel sticks
2 raisins
Peanut butter

Directions:

Spread peanut butter onto one of the round crackers. Place the pretzel sticks on the edges of the cracker. These are your spider's legs! Place the second cracker on top of the first cracker. Spread two small dots of peanut butter on top of the second cracker. To make your spider eyes, stick one raisin to each dot of peanut butter.

 

Just For Fun

 

Water Spouts and Spiders

Since I have a sink in my room, I have plastic pipes that the children use as water spouts and little black spiders to act out "The Itsy Bitsy Spider."

 

 

 

Great Spider Ideas From Enchanted Learning

http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/themes/spiders.shtml

 

 

Bulletin Board Ideas

 

Spiders Spiders Everywhere

 

Very Busy Spiders

 

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Last Updated 10/09/2005