Diary of a....Eeek, a Spider!

This past week our class enjoyed reading the story Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin, who also wrote the books Diary of a Fly and Diary of a Worm - great stories!

Not only did we read the story Diary of a Spider, but we also spent a considerable amount of time learning about spiders, especially the jumping spider.

We learned that spiders have eight legs and also eight eyes (which tied in great with our math lesson on doubles). We also learned that a jumping spider is only 1/2 inch in size but is able to jump 20 inches. And the grossest thing we learned was that spiders do not chew. Instead, they insert their fangs into its prey (say a fly for example) and they insert a poison that turns the fly's insides to a soup which the spider then sucks up with its mouth.

Eww, yuck!

And after all that research we got our craft on and created these darling spiders that are now "hanging" in the hallway.  Here's some pics of the students hard at work:and their finished projects on display.

We have decided that the spiders are the perfect classroom pets for now, which was a great way to introduce our next story in our reading books called Teacher's Pets! Your student will be bringing home their reading book on Wednesday night to read the new story to you - happy reading!