Students describe what they see. At the Music and Drama Centers , sing and act out songs and nursery rhymes. Introduce songs and rhymes to the whole group in the first lesson and keep them in the centers for rest of the unit. At the Mathematics Center , the students do Activity - Like or Not Like . At the Art Center , the students make a wall spider.
Students draw or paint individual spiders to place on the bulletin board.
Students can also make flannel board spider body parts by cutting the body parts out of flannel and putting them together with glue or sewing them. The different parts can be made from different-colored flannel. At the Art and Drama Centers , act out rhymes. At the Writing Center , students work on a vocabulary list by locating new word tags in alphabetical order on the wall spider as they learn them, e.g., life cycle, egg sac, ballooning, spiderlings, food chain. Getting the Idea Students verbalize any decisions to qualify their spider preferences after the lesson and write their comments over or under their names on the graph.