We Started our Spider Unit

We made a good start to our Spider Unit for the month of January.

Charlotte worked on her cover page for the lapbook:

I read her the fact passage and then she filled in the cloze for it.

Then she ordered the Days of the Week cards and did the cut and paste for them as well.

This is the first book that we'll be reading.  It makes for a great introduction.

We also did our Spider poem this week as well.  Well, I read it and she colored it.  The amazing thing is that when I was reading it to Charlotte, the other girls got super quiet and listened in.  In fact, two of the girls actually came up close to me so that they could listen even more carefully.

Don't forget, you can pick up this poem as a printable for FREE - HERE. 

We also worked on 4 of the vocabulary words too.

Yes, a great start to our Spider unit.  :)

A FREE Spider Calendar Pack

My last post of the year.....

so I thought I would make it a freebie.....

and since we'll be doing a Spider Lapbook in January I thought that I would make another little add-on, a Spider Calendar pack.

It has 2 anchor charts in it....

It has cut and paste worksheets for the Days of the Week and Months of the Year.

 I always like to print up the Days and Months on colored paper.

Just have the children cut and paste them back into the correct order.

I've included little hand cards for the Days of the Week and Months of the Year.

and to finish off the pack I also put a set of bookmarks and the calendar fill-it-ins in there as well.

Yep, so that about wraps up the year.  Thank you so much for visiting my little blog.  Stay safe, stay true, and we'll see you early next year. 

Science Interactive Spider Lapbook

Yay, I finally finished my Spider lapbook.  And can I just tell you - wow, I even impressed myself.  Every time I make one, they improve.

Haven't had time to do the usual photo shoot, but I do have a quick video walk through on how I put it all together.

There are plenty of options available for different parts inside the pack as well for the cloze, writing, pockets, vocabulary etc...  but this is what I put in it for Charlotte for when January arrives and when we resume school.

Thanks so much chookies.

A Spider Poem

This morning I found an awesome poem to put inside my Spider Lapbook - which I have now finished writing, but still need to assemble, hence its non-availability at the moment.  I just need to assemble and take all the photos and video footage of the assembly before I make it available in the store.  You understand.  I am sure.

We are still unpacking and I haven't found the A3 paper or my tripod yet.

However, I just wanted to do a quick little share here of the poem that I've included.

There is a second page - with the remaining portion of the poem and a little fly on it too.

At any rate, thanks so much for visiting.  Just click the poem above to down load it. 

Animal Comprehension Test Time Bundle

I'm doing something that I don't normally do.  I am going to make a BUNDLE.  Yep, I'm going to bundle up all my little animal comprehension / test times together and make a bundle with them.  I do sell them individually, and I also put them in their corresponding lapbooks.  However, what to do if someone just wants a nice collection of mini stand alone animal comprehension worksheets?

Drum roll.......

An Animal comprehension test time BUNDLE.

I am starting it off with 4 animals and will continue to grow it as I add more.

Each page is a stand alone and the questions relate to the mini passage at the top of each page.

I'm really enjoying adding all these cool new things.

Spider Jigsaws and Supplements

As some of you know, I have been immersed in writing a Spider Lapbook.  It's going to be slow and steady since I don't have a home of my own just yet.  To complicate it we'll have to detour to a caravan stay for a couple of weeks as well.

Along the way I've been detoured a couple of times with supplementals.

Here's one:

Yep, a whole book of Spider Types as jigsaws.

I've put both a colored version and a black line version of each spider in there.

It's 12 different spiders, but 24 pages.

Super fun, super handy if you just happen to be doing Spiders in your theme work.

I also have some Spider Types Bracelets / Arm Bands depending if you are male or female.

There are 12 different spiders in this little mini pack too.

Just something to make it more fun to learn some cool stuff.

If one is opposed to wearing them it would be super easy to just link them up into chains for show and tell.  You can even use them as bookmarks.  Pretty versatile.

Yes, just wanted to share some new stuff I've been working on.

A Spider Project

Today I thought I'd do a quick little show and tell with what we ended up doing on our Spider unit.

First I went and found some books with Spider information:

So they could just take some time having a look for themselves.

Then I decided that I would read this book to the girls.

Then the girls did some work on our Spider project.

We still have a couple of more pages to finish.

How did you use these FREE Spider worksheets?  Did you make it a project? Did you use them separately?

Thanks for visiting.

Spider Day Pack { Freebie }

Today I made a little Spider Day Pack.

This is designed to be a FACTUAL project.

After I did all the computer work for it, I then printed it out, cut it down where it needed to be cut, and assembled it - so that it was ready to go for project time.  So technically it's not finished as in - a child has not completed the pack, but it's all put together ready for their little thoughts and color.

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I put the Spider questions on the left and the Spider Facts on the right.  I taped them side by side with some clear tape.  This made a book base. 

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Then I closed the book up and added the title page to the front.  Here is the title page:

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I cut and assembled the double sided Can, Have, Are flip book.  I cut to separate the three parts. Then I ran a strip of double sided tape on the back of the foldable and added that on the inside spine of the project.

Just an extra photo of what it all looks like:

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On the very back of the book base I added the last worksheet.

And voila~!!  We have a Spider Day Pack that can pretty much go with any little Spider story or research project.

If you'd like a FREE copy just click on through ANY picture sample.

All I need now is to find a little Spider story or encyclopedia entry on spiders to read to the girlies and then we can fill in our project book. :o)

Today I'm joining up with:

and

I hope you will join us.

Thanks so much for visiting.