Contact_FullName: Heather

Contact_Email: jccckids@wildmail.com

date:: 05/02/03

Idea:

I got this song from the mailbox magazine. But my class of four and five year olds added the claps, jumps, clicks, etc.

Enjoy!

Bug Song

(sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It"

Oh, I wish I were an eensy-weensy spider.

*clap, clap*

Yes, I wish I were an eensy-weensy spider.

*clap, clap*

I'd go "creepy-creepy-crawly" down your hall and up

your "wall-y!"

Oh, I wish I were an eensy-weensy spider.

*Clap Clap* (clap hands twice)

To go with the Poem "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" a board can be made to demonstrate the movements up and down...you need a large cardboard sheet and pictures of a spider, rain, sun and spider again. If you have the computer program Boardmaker, these are easy to make, if not, perhaps the images can be found on the internet, or you can draw them. Attach the pictures to strings and pull the strings through the cardboard at the top and the bottom so that when you pull on the string from behind, the spider will go up or down, depending on how you pull the string. Then you can enact the story. "The Itsy Bitsy Spider went up (as you pull the string to make the spider go up) the water spout" etc... Hope this is clear enough.

Contact_FullName: Jill

Contact_Email:

date:: 10-20-02

Area: spider theme- songs

Idea:

Tweek the song "I'm Bringing Home A Baby Bumble Bee" to "I'm Bringing Home A Baby Spider"

Contact_FullName: Kathy

Contact_Email: katNwes@webtv.net

date:: 10/20/02

Area: Spiders-songs

Idea:

There's A Spider on the Floor

Tune: If You're Happy and You Know it

There's a spider on the floor on the floor (2x)

Who could ask for anything more

than a spider on the floor

There's a spider on the floor on the floor

Now the spider's on my leg on my leg (2x)

Oh he's really big this old spider on my leg there's a spider on my leg on my leg

Now the spider's on my stomach on my stomach (2x)

This old spider's on my stomach oh he's just an old lummock this old spider on my stomach on my stomach

Now the spider's on my neck on my neck (2x)

Oh I'm gonna be a wreck I've got a spider on my neck There's a spider on my neck on my neck

Now the spider's on my face on my face (2x)

Oh what a big disgrace I've got a spider on my face There's a spider on my face on my face

Now the spiders on my head on my head (2x)

Oh the spiders on my head I want to hide up in my bed There's a spider on my head on my head

"But he jumps off"

There's a spider on the floor on the floor (repeat first verse)

The children really get involved in the song if they each have their own plastic spider to put on the parts of the body mentioned in each verse.

Contact_FullName: Darcy

Contact_Email: cassiaflower33@hotmail.com

date:: 10/16/02

Area: Spider Songs

Idea:

I taught the kids La Arana (The spanish word for spiders) for the ones were afraid of spiders. We did the itsy bitsy spider and the great big spider. I heard you can do a tired spider, etc.

Their favorite was the Spider on the floor! to the tune of Farmer in the Dell.

There's a Spider on the floor, on the floor.

There's a spider on the floor on the floor.

Oh, who could ask for more, than a spider on the floor.

There's a Spider on the floor, on the floor.

(Now you get the idea for the other verses)

Shoe, Oh, isn't it a zoo?

Knee, Oh, it's as big as me!

Hip, I think I'm gonna flip!

Tummy,Gee, it's just so funny!

Chest, Isn't it the best?

Back, I'm never gonna lack.

Arm, It won't do any harm.

Neck, Oh, what the heck.

Face, Big disgrace.

Head, Did you hear what I said?

Now he jumped off!

(Start the song again!)

Contact_FullName: Debra Stieglitz

Contact_Email: midestro@peoplepc.com

date:: 02/01/02

Area: music play

Idea:

children and teacher hold stuffed spider behind backs and recite: Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey...along came a spider (take spider from behind back and bring to front) and SAT (plop spider down on floor) and (hide quickly behind back) frightened Miss Muffet away! sing: Where's my spider, where'd he go, where's my spider, where'd he go, where's my spider, where'd he go, oh no he's on my toe (and place spider on toe) (tune of skip to my lou). Once spider is on toe, sing a scale from low do to high do placing spider on various body parts so children get the idea of an ascending scale (toe, knee, tummy, etc). Then do a descending scale ending with the spider on toe, then we kick it off at the very end. Afterwards, we sing the itsy bitsy spider using the spider itself to make the movements with its legs. The kids love this and it is musically educational as well.

Spider Legs (Chant):

One, two, three, four

Spider legs -- we need some more!

Five, six, seven, eight,

Every spider has eight!