Sharks, Week of May 18

🐜 Bugs and Insects 🐞

Monday May 18

Music Monday

· The Insect Song
· Here is the Beehive
· Ladybug
· Itsy Bitsy Spider
· Snail and Mouse

Creative Exploration
· Field Journal - Scientists who study bugs are called Entomologists. To get ready to be an entomologist this week make yourself a field journal. Fold or stack several pieces of blank paper together and staple, lace, or glue one side of the pages together. Decorate the cover with your name and” BUG JOURNAL” or other title.

Literacy
· Video - Watch this video about 10 bugs you might find outside. Draw the bug you’d like to learn more about. Have a family member help you write down questions you have about that bug.
· Bug research - Use books, look online, or ask experts to find out the answers to your questions.
· Read Aloud-The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle. Read by a Dolphin friend.
· Read Aloud-Next Time You See a Pill Bug by Emily Rachel Morgan

Numeracy
· Counting Legs - Insects have 6 legs and 3 body segments. Arachnids have 8 legs and 2 body segments. Millipedes and Centipedes have many legs and many body segments. Use playdough to sculpt the body segments different insects, arachnids, and centipedes or millipedes and add the appropriate number of legs using toothpicks or pipe cleaners.

· Swat the Number - Write numbers on the sidewalk with chalk or on post-its around the house. Say the number you want the student to find, they can use the flyswatter to swat the answer.

Tuesday May 19

Creative Exploration
· Bug Catcher—Make a container to help you observe bugs more closely. Find a container you can see through and is easy to get bugs in and out without hurting them. Be sure you have a way for the bugs to get air. Decorate it if you’d like.

· Fingerprint Bugs—Dip your fingers in paint, color them with marker, or press them on an ink pad. Stamp your fingers on a paper. After your fingerprints dry, add legs, eyes, and antennae. If you’d like, you can print this page of a jar to put your “bugs” in.

Literacy
· Word Wall—Print this word wall in color with pictures or print this black and white version and add your own illustrations for each word.

Read Aloud—The Very Grouchy Ladybug
Grouchy Ladybug Feelings Wheel—Print the feeling wheel and write or draw a picture in each section or trace around a paper plate on a piece of paper. Divide the circle on the paper into four sections. Write “I feel grouchy when…….” In one section. Write “I feel happy when….” In the second section. Write “I feel sad when….” In the third section and write “I feel excited when….” In the last section. Cut out the wheel and glue it to a paper plate

Paint another plater red and add spots. When the red plate dries, cut it in half and attach it to the plater with the feeling wheel. Add a head, eyes, and antennae to your ladybug.

· Bug research - Continue finding the answers to your questions. If you’ve already answered all your questions about the bug you chose, choose another one and make another list of questions to find the answers too!

Numeracy
· Ladybug game - Print this ladybug outline or draw an outline on a piece of paper for each player. Take turns rolling a die and adding that number of spots to your ladybug using a marker or crayon. How many spots does your ladybug have all together? Whose ladybug has the least spots? Whose ladybug has the most? To make a reusable version, make the ladybug out of colored paper, craft foam, felt, or cardboard. Cut or punch circles out of black paper for the spots or use black checkers or other round game pieces.

Science
· Insect sort - Insects have 3 body segments: Head, Thorax, Abdomen. Insects have 6 legs. Look at pictures of different types of bugs and count their legs and body segments to see if they are an insect or not. Take a piece of paper and divide it in half. Write INSECT at the top of one column and NOT AN INSECT at the top of the other. Write or draw the bugs you find under the correct column. You could also print pictures or cut them out of magazines and glue them under the correct column.

Wednesday May 20

Creative Exploration
· Insect Costume - Can you make yourself an insect costume? Gather materials to make antennae, compound eyes, wings, and 6 legs.
· Be the Bug - You can wear your insect costume if you made one! Think of different types of bugs you have seen. How did they move? Imagine you are a bug and move around the room or yard. Can you flutter like a butterfly or moth? Buzz like a bee or dragonfly? How would you move if you were a grasshopper, centipede, or pill bug? If you want some ideas print this page and cut them apart.

Literacy
· Read Aloud—Under One Rock by Anthony D. Fredericks.
· Swat the letter/sound/word-- Write letters/words on the sidewalk or on post-its around the house. After you recite what you want the student to find, they can use the flyswatter to swat the answer. Change it up and say a sound and have your child swat the corresponding letter.
· Word Wall Writing—Use your word wall to practice writing some of the words that are most interesting to you.

Numeracy
· Bug Count—Print this bug scavenger hunt. Go outside and count how many of each type of bug you find. Write the totals in the squares.

· Bug Count—divide a blank piece of paper into 6 squares. Write one type of bug in each square. Go outside and count how many of each type of bug you find. Write the totals in each square when you’re done.

Cooking Project
· Ants on a Log - Wash and dry a stick of celery. Use a butter knife to cut it into 3 or 4 sticks. Spread peanut butter or other nut butter in the “cup” of the celery. Place raisins down the center. Enjoy eating your ants on a log!

Edible Bugs - collect small food items such as paper carrots, peas, grapes, small tomatoes, pretzel sticks, ect. Use your snacks to create different bugs before eating them.

Community Adventure
· Bug Search - Gather your bug catcher and head outside. Look around carefully and see if you can find any bugs. If you choose to collect some for closer observation be sure to ask your grownup before touching them with your hands and always return them where you found them when you are done. Record your observations in your bug journal.

Thursday May 21

· Creative Exploration
Weave a Web - Take a paper plate, or piece of cardboard cut into a circle, and punch holes around the edge. Use string or yarn to weave in and out the holes, across the center, to weave your own spider web. Create a spider to live on your web or use a toy spider and other bugs to make a story.
· Glue and salt web—Watch this video of Miss Caroline making a spider web with white glue and salt and then try it yourself.

Literacy
· Read Aloud—A Look at Spiders by Jerald Halpern
· Read Aloud—Be Nice To Spiders by Margaret Bloy Graham
· Parts of a Spider—Print this spider diagram. Write the labels for each part of the body then color your spider.

Numeracy
· Dot to Dot Spider-Printable
· Spider Counting Book - Print this book, cut the pages apart and put them in order. After stapling your book spend time illustrating each page. When your finished adding the illustrations, practice reading your book to someone in your family.

Movement
· Yoga - Learn the spider pose by watching this short video

Yoga—Enzo the Bee

Friday May 22

Creative Exploration

· Realistic Drawing - Collect some real bugs or some pictures of different bugs. Look at them closely. What shapes do you see? What colors do you see? Use markers, colored pencils, crayons, or paint to create realistic drawings of some of the bugs. Do your best to add details like legs, eyes, and antennae too!

Literacy
· Why Do Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears by Verna Aardema a read aloud by an Otter friend.
· Read Aloud—Anansi the Spider
· Build and Tell - Gather small bug toys or use bugs that you’ve made, and some blocks, boxes, or something else to build with. Use these materials to create your own story with bugs as the characters.

Numeracy
· Bee Maze- Print this maze and help the bee find its honey.
· Ladybug Spot Rocks—gather round flat rocks and paint them red like a ladybug. Use black paint and cotton swab or finger to dot spots to your rock beginning with 1 spot and adding for as many rocks as you have. When the rocks are dry use them for sequencing by line them up in order, reverse order, or use them to tell stories.

Fine Motor
· Cutting Practice--Print these pages and practice cutting along the lines.

Notes

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Guess Who! Video

This friend would get picked up by a bus and we always wondered what adventures he would have. He also loves facts and would often share books that answered all sorts of questions. Think of this friend while you watch this video about a school bus and learn some facts about bats.

This friend LOVES his Papa! He would often share with the class when his Papa was going to pick him up from school and when he saw his Papa at the fence he would run straight to the gate to see him. Can you guess which friend it is? Think about him and your own “Papa” while you watch this story.

Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me by Eric Carle

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