Contact_FullName: Janet

Contact_Email: jmjjmill

date:: 5-5-02

Area: spiders--story web

Idea:

Have a group of children sit on the floor in a circle. Use a ball of yarn to spin a story web. The teacher starts the story, hold on to the end of the yarn and throw the ball to another child to continue the story. When everyone has had a turn you've spun a web. This works well with fours and fives.

Contact_FullName:

Deb

Contact_Email:

dbosle@alltel.net

8-1-00

KID COCOONS Children can wrap each other in toilet paper (excluding their head) so they can feel what it would be like to be a caterpillar in a cocoon. Have them close their eyes and imagine that they are about to become butterflies. Have them stretch their "wings" and tear through the toilet paper cocoons.

Contact_FullName:

Roberta

Contact_Email:

robairta@yahoo.com

Pattern-pillers. Practice and learn patterns by using pattern-pillers. Use paper, glue, different colored pompoms, and if you like google eyes. Have the children create patterns using the different colors pompoms in making their pattern-piller.