S is for Spider

Last week we studied the letter S! Since it was Halloween on Monday, Spiders seemed appropriate to study.

We read a few poems each week. This week we loved "Little Miss Muffet." I found a lot of resources here for our Miss Muffet theme day. For example:

Wind sock to teach that spiders have 8 legs.


Poem and coloring page.

We also recited the poem with props:

The props came from this book, Kindercenters for Reading Readiness.

Our sight words this week were "in" and "on." I found a little reader from www.kinderreaders.com called "Spider." It's about where a spider is... IN or ON things. Afterwards, we did an activity placing a little spider in a book called, "Where is the Spider?"

I love the website: 2 teaching mommies.
I've found awesome stuff and been able to make some really cool file folder activity centers for the boys.


I downloaded this theme unit from 2 Teaching Mommies to make most of this stuff.


The unit also had pages to do play-doh on.  So we did play-doh!!



In our letter "S" studies we used many of these printables for tracing practice. Here's SS working on his lapbook that I created out of all sorts of goodies I found online.




Here's some of the boys' work:

(From the websites above.)  Letter S dot art, and Letter S's using star stickers.


How do you spell Spider?

We also did a little writing activity that I tore out of a coloring/activity book (Spiderman- of course!)



I also tore out some puzzles from the book and laminated them so they can work on them whenever they'd like.

Here's a little video of the boys playing "Spider Scurry."

The idea came from this book:


The boys loved creating this book.  Daddy helped them with it- just for fun.

They glued all sorts of fun things to the papers. (I'm not sure where I found this... I promise to keep better track of where I download stuff from.)

SS & I did a fun science experiement together.



We learned why spiders don't stick to their webs! The idea and worksheet came from this blog.

To practice writing numbers we did our work out of the Spider-Man Numbers and Counting book.


A few books we read this week:
How Spider Saved Christmas




Be Nice to Spiders


Spiders are not Insects


Spiders: The Ultimate Preditors
This one had amazing pictures but the text was WAY beyond Kindergarten level. They loved just staring at the pictures.


My Father's Dragon

We also continued with our study of the Old Testament, focusing on Joseph and the coat of many colors.

Tuesday morning (the day after Halloween) we did a fun sorting activity with Skittles... since we had plenty on hand from their Halloween stash.

They sorted by color, graphed their findings, and then answered math questions.  THEN they were able to snack on them.  The printouts came from here.

AND... what would "spider week" be like without spider shaped pancakes. The boys loved these!!


Almost everything we use is downloaded from the internet or I've found at the local Thrift Store.  I've been VERY blessed that someone has been donating their Kindergarten homeschool curriculum to the thrift store.  It's been such a blessing.  We have all sorts of books and resources that I pull ideas from. 

I also found a bunch of math manipulatives such as these links for super cheap.  I pulled them out for VV to play with and I was shocked when she actually lined up the links in the right direction according to color. 


Next week is the letter G!