We are well on our way to discovering what is so great about spiders. After our first day of our spider unit study we are beginning to see these "things" as something other than just creepy. Imagine that! In fact, we are graphing how many of us do not like spiders now and will take another poll at the end of our unit study next week and regraph to see if any of us have changed our minds. At this point, 3 out of 4 don't like spiders. Although, I'm not convinced of TJ's answer since he runs from spiders just as fast as the rest of us. Ha!

Just for fun, we are reading The Black Widow Spider Mystery (a Box Car Children book) as a read-a-loud. It's a mystery to make it all the more exciting! While I read to the kids they ate spider web toast that I made for them. I simply toasted pieces of toast, smeared some peanut butter on them, then squirted chocolate syrup in squiggly lines and loops on top so it simulated a spider web on each piece of toast. Serve with a banana-chocolate-peanut butter smoothie and you've got a snack that the kids will love! 

As a quick little introduction to spiders we read Spiders Are Not Insects by Allen Fowler. We found this book to be really interesting with neat pictures despite its extreme simplicity.