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.


Notice he is sitting in our masking tape spider web on the living room floor where Jerry pretended to be a spider all week.


Webs are really fun to make.  We made one with tempera paint, yarn, and Jerry's thumb print.  We also made one with glitter glue and a tin foil spider.  It's hanging near a sunny window and looks real cool at night with a flashlight shining on it too.


Yarn & Tempera Paint

Glitter Glue

We hid fake plastic flies around the house and went on a scavenger hunt for them, played animal pictures memory, and animal sounds B-I-N-G-O.  We also went on a search around the house for silky stuff that feels the way a spider's web does.

Well, that's it for bugs, though Jerry has been recently infatuated with bees and the fact that they make honey.  So who knows what's next.  We may do some more ABC's first though.  All of these insect units are driving me a little "buggy"!
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May. 2, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous
Jeremiah looks like he is having a blast!!! :-)

Eric Carle books are the best!

Tammy
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