Spiders!

We have been learning so much about spiders! The vocabulary our Kindergartens are using has been blowing us away! It really shows that kids will learn what we expose them to, so set the bar high and they will make it up there.

Here is a sneak peak into some of our learning...

Some of our initial wonders:

D.S- I wonder how spiders are born?

B.R.- I wonder why they have 8 legs?

J.C- I wonder how they make their webs?

I.S- I wonder why spiders have webs?

D.K- I wonder why spiders have a line on their bodies?

A.W- I wonder why do spiders crawl around?

A.S- I wonder why they have webs?

P.X- I wonder why bodies have colours?

M.R- I wonder why spiders need webs?

A.G- I wonder how many eyes spiders have?

A.A- spiders go home outside

J.R- I wonder how many eyes spiders have?

R.B- I wonder how spiders get big?

P.W- I wonder why some spiders are poison?

Z.D- I wonder why some got stripes on them?

This video (below) was what really sparked an interest and fascination about spiders. 

We learned a lot about spiders and their body parts from books and videos. Our learners worked together to create a large spider for our classroom that they painted and then labeled all the parts. Our artists also painted spiders as a way to share their learning.

Here is some of the information we learned:

P.X- spider web can touch the bug and eat the fly or mosquito

A.W- there is different kinds of silk

H.M- some people is scared of spiders

J.C- some spiders are scared of people

I.S- we learned that spiders aren’t insects

P.S- they are arachnids

V.S- they have 8 legs

A.G- they shoot out the silk from their spinnerets

J.R- the spiders are tiny and some are bigger and if humans step on them the spiders will put webs on them

M.R- black widow spiders can bite you

B.R- spiders eat any insects or flies or mosquitos and they wrap their food so they can eat it

We also learning about spiders' webs and how they make them.

This video and learning inspired our learners to create their own webs and spiders using various materials around the classroom.

What we learned about webs and silk:

P.S- spiders have 7 kinds of silks, but not three

D.S- I wonder how the bugs want to fly in the web?

H.M- I wonder why the bugs will go to to the web and the spider will eat him?

P.S- I wonder how the bugs could go in the spider’s web?

A.G- it’s sticky!

P.W- how does the fly want to go in the web and think the spider don’t want to eat it?

P.X- I wonder why the spider can touch the white one and the white one is the sticky one. The spider touches the bug and he eats it

We had Zoo to You come visit and they brought a tarantula for us to high five!

Stay tuned for more learning!