Bugs

Activities: 

All activities are aligned with VA approved standards and can be used with students in grades Pre-K through High School. 

• Math Strands Addressed:

  • Measurement/Geometry

  • Probability/Statistics

  • Patterns/Functions/Algebra

• Writing Activities

  • Wordless book activity to write captions

  • Thought bubbles and images to writing starters

  • My Favorite Bug writing starter

• Bug Detective Activities

  • Interactive book with numbers and magnifier

  • Bug Detective book for numeracy with manipulatives, generic background, and magnetic whiteboard

• Learning Prepositions: over, under, and on

  • velcro activity with scenes and manipulatives

• File Folder Graphing Activity

• I Love Bugs! programmed to be read aloud by student using the AnyBook Reader

• Interactive book, I Love Bugs! with audio CD

• File Folder Activities for Word Study

  • bug letter sort - B

  • bug letter sort - U

  • bug letter sort - G

  • bug upper case B/ lower case b sort

  • bug AB patterns

  • bug spelling

  • bug word ladder

  • bug picture sort

• Butterfly extension activity - chromatography butterfly craft

Web Resources: 

• 50 Activities for Playing and Learning with Insects!

• More activities for I LOVE BUGS!

• Pinterest Bugs & Insect Activities

VDOE Resources: 

• Virginia's Early Learning & Development Standards ELDS 

• Introductory and Implementation Guidance Webinar on ELDS