Toddlers were very busy with spiders this month. We listened to the story by Eric Carle, made our own class spider web, threw spiders at a web, color matched spiders, stacked spiders, and did a web craft. There’s a Spider on the Floor by Raffi was a favorite song this month as well!
We have jumped right in to our October literature with our reading of Eric Carle’s The Very Busy Spider last week! We had fun reading the story together, and making all of the different sounds of the animals that the Busy Spider met while spinning her web. The students all got a turn to touch the raised spiderweb on the pages of the book, which was a favorite part for most 🙂
Using puffy paint and a squeeze bottle, each student got to make their own raised “spiderwebs”!
We have been focusing on bugs, spiders, insects and creepy crawlers this month. The toddlers have sorted insects by color and shape. We have also read lots of stories, sang songs, and did puppet activities involving bugs. Our class created insect crowns to practice fine motor skills with stickers. We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, then reacted the story using magnets, and made a craft practicing patterns. A sensory bin filled with insects and magnifying glasses have kept our toddlers engaged. We have been buggin’ out this month!
Our Language and Vocabulary for the month is working with the words on and off. In this spider themed activity the children placed spiders on the spider web and took them off.
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