We spent last week learning all about everyone's favorite 8-legged critters! As expected, the kids were OBSESSED! We began by making an anchor chart with the following headers: Schema, New Learning, Misconceptions. The kids told me their schema about spiders and I jotted them down on post-it's {lack of time that day}. I just used a plain poster paper but I love Vickie's spider anchor chart!
Next, we read Spiders by Gail Gibbons. I love her books. They are so informative and presented in a way that my first graders can understand! We looked at some vocab from Lyndsey's spider pack. She has such good non-fiction stuff!
We read a few more non-fiction spider books and watched a few spider YouTube clips throughout the week. We also did our first persuasive/opinion writing: Why you shouldn't kill a spider if you see one {can't say I agree with that!}. We did this one together, as it was our first time writing this way.
We reviewed non-fiction text features with a little spider text features mini-book. The kids really enjoyed that! Our learning was wrapped up by completing a "new learning" post it for our poster. We also played a spider spelling dice game and made spider crafts. To grab my free spider stuff, click below!
xo
Megan
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| Photo from Primary Press |
We read a few more non-fiction spider books and watched a few spider YouTube clips throughout the week. We also did our first persuasive/opinion writing: Why you shouldn't kill a spider if you see one {can't say I agree with that!}. We did this one together, as it was our first time writing this way.
We reviewed non-fiction text features with a little spider text features mini-book. The kids really enjoyed that! Our learning was wrapped up by completing a "new learning" post it for our poster. We also played a spider spelling dice game and made spider crafts. To grab my free spider stuff, click below!
xo
Megan
