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Teaching Jeremiah, A Journey into the Mind of an Asperger's Child
May. 1, 2008
"The Very Busy Spider"
Ok, I am officially Eric Carle'd out! We ended our bug unit with "The Very Busy Spider"...a stretch for me since everyone knows how much I HATE spiders!! We had so much fun though. We made another of our crawling bugs, this time a big, black, hairy tarantula. We also made a cool spider snack with marshmallows, pretzel sticks, and M&M's. Then we drizzled chocolate syrup over our yummy pet to look like he was in a web. Jerry loved eating this critter up, especially licking the chocolate syrup off the plate.
We circled eight-legged things on a worksheet, made "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" finger puppets to act out the song. We also made a cool egg carton cup spider craft that you pulled through a piece of PVC pipe as you sang "The Itsy Bitsy Spider".
I stuck one end of a piece of masking tape to Jerry's shirt and he spun around as I unrolled the roll of tape and "caught" him in my web. Boy, did he giggle!
One of my less enthusiastic projects was finding a vacant spider web, spraying it lightly with blue spray paint, and then transferring it to a piece of paper to dry so Jerry could see its pattern up close and touch it.
Here's a picture of our spider handprints craft too.
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Glitter Glue
May. 2, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Eric Carle books are the best!
Tammy
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