Creepy, crawly, and an engaging way to get first graders to work on important reading, writing, and math skills: spiders, spiders EVERYWHERE! We did so many different spider activities I had to divide it up in four separate posts. In reading, we read both fiction and nonfiction books on spiders.
We worked on retelling a story using the story elements of character, setting, problem, ordered events, and solution or ending. We took the very familiar story of the Itsy Bitsy Spider and made a story map to include the elements of a complete retell. Listen to this student use the map to tell all the elements of Itsy Bitsy. So smart!
Another important foundational reading skill that we practiced with spiders this week was recognizing rhyming words. We practiced rhyming by playing a game called "Web of Rhymes." Students had relay race. They had to run to the "Web of Rhymes" balancing a spider on their heads. Then, the first graders had to find a rhyming pair. After the rhyming pair was selected, the racer brought the cards to their score keeper and handed the spider off to the next team mate. The children had so much fun collecting rhymes, they didn't realize how hard they were working.
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