Spider Fun

I hate SPIDERS!  But, we have had fun this week doing our spider centers and activities and it's been interesting learning about spiders.  It's funny...they all knew that Mrs. Lee was afraid of spider when we graphed that question.  Funny what they pick up on.  

Here we are using one of the memory games from my October Intervention Pack...we have had so much fun using this pack!

Here are some of our spider centers this week...these are all included in my Spider Unit.  I just posted it to TpT last night.

We had so much fun acting out The Itsy Bitsy Spider.

I found this adorable mask at Target last year in the dollar section.  I just knew I could use it for something and it came in handy for this fun little activity.

You can check our these fun center games HERE!  :)

Strategies & Intervention Fun

Y'all...my kiddos are finally beginning to "get it" in letter naming.  For the most part we know the letters in our name now and are remembering the letters we are learning with our reading series.  Intervention can be so boring if you let it...my EL learners struggle with language barriers so initial sounds is so very hard for them.  They just can't retain the pictures because they don't know them.  The little ISF game below REALLY helps them learn how to play the "sound game".  They are starting to get it.  Here we are using the game from my October Small Groups and Intervention Pack.  This pack really makes my intervention time fun and worthwhile!

Here, the students are using the letter naming strips from the pack also.  We are getting really good at this strip before we move on.  They got so tickled over the witch fingers when I brought them out...and it was a huge HIT!  Go to Target Dollar Section now to get your own!

On another note, we are learning about spiders this week so we practiced positional words with a foam spider.  I say, "Put the spider at the top of your body."...or middle of your arm, and so forth...you get the idea.  It was fun!

Coming up...SPIDERS...and the unit is almost ready for tpt!

Miss Spider's Tea Party

Here are pictures from our tea party with Mrs. Ray's class.  We tasted three different flavors of "tea" (juice) and then we graphed which one we liked best!  So fun!

(idea from kinderbykim)

Spiders, Spiders, Spiders

This week we learned all about spiders!  To begin our unit, we graphed whether or not we were afraid of spiders.  The kids were surprised to find out that Mrs. Lee IS afraid of spiders, but I had so many little volunteers to take care of the spiders if we ever have one in our room.  We also created a K-L chart about spiders.  (we left our the W part, but we did talk about what we wanted to learn from our studies this week)  We knew a little about spiders, but check out everything we learned by the end of the week.  Spider week is a busy one.  We made a retelling activity for The Itsy Bitsy Spider, we also made Little Miss Muffet and filled in the missing letters....S.  But, the most fun was our tea party with Mrs. Ray's class.  We read Miss Spider's Tea Party and then we tasted three different kinds of "tea" (juice).  We graphed our favorite "tea".