Pre-Plan

BYU-Idaho Preschool
Lab Number 5
Theme or Topic: Spiders

Date for Pre-Plan Review: Friday, October 9th 2015

Date Plan will be taught: Friday, October 30th 2015
Level Three Supervisor: Christabel Ethridge
Lead Teacher: Ali Wilcox, Monica Rosales & Christabel Ethridge

Children and Learning/Development Goals:

1. Olive Olive has a goal to reach across her body. Olive can work on her goal at the
self-selected activity where she can reach across her body to throw the beanbag at the
Halloween spider web.
2. Lizzie One of her goals is to have more social interaction. Lizzie can work on her
goal at the small focus activity as she works with the other children in her group to
build a web with yarn.
3. Jefferson He has a goal to count from 1-10. Jefferson can work on his goal at the
Halloween spider web where he can throw the beanbag to the numbers that will be
placed on the Halloween spider web. The teachers can prompt him to throw it at a
certain number on the Halloween spider web.
4. Isaac- He has a goal to learn more of their ABCs. Isaac can work on his goal by
throwing the beanbag at the Halloween spider web. The teachers can prompt him to
throw it at a certain letter.
5. Clark- He has a goal to learn more of his colors. Clark can work on his goal as he
explores the different colors he can use at the creative art table. Teachers can ask him
what colors he is using.
6. Logan- He has a goal to initiate play/social interaction. Logan can work on his goal at
the block area. Teachers can prompt him to play with others by playing with Logan
and then talking to the other children around to bring them over as well.

Preassessment and Findings:

During my observations of the children on the playground I noted how Brandon found a lady bug
and showed it to Trey. Brandon said, Hey look its a ladybug. I also noted how the children in
our classroom would ask to go outside soon after arriving at preschool. During outside time all
of the children except a few would go outside to play. While outside I noticed some of the
children such as Clark and Jane would play in the willow hut. From these observations I felt the
children in our classroom had an interest in nature and the outdoors. However, these
observations were few and broad so I decided to prepare an open-ended activity of nature to
preassess what specifically to teach the children. During small focus groups I took four children
outside. I explained to them how we were going to take a sheet and place it under a tree or bush.
Then we would shake the tree or bush and explore what fell onto the sheet. I asked them what
tree or bush they wanted to put the sheet under first. Trey and Dallin pointed to the willow hut.
This question helped me to know what natural plants on the playground they were interested in
so I could incorporate them into our future lesson. We placed the sheet inside the willow hut and
then shook the willows from the outside. Then I asked where next they would like to go and
Avery pointed to a small tree and said, That one with the yellow leaves. We repeated the
activity. We then laid out the sheet and I asked, What do you see on the sheet? Avery found a
ladybug and held it up and said, A ladybug. Next, Brady pointed to a small spider crawling on
the sheet. I asked the group, What bugs do you see on the sheet. Brady said, A small bug.
Dallin said, Its a spider. I asked, What bugs do you like? Brady said, I like spiders. Trey
backed off. I asked him if he was afraid of spiders and he nodded. I asked why and Brady and
Trey said, Because they bite. I asked, Why do they bite? Dallin said, I dont know. Next I
asked what spiders eat. Avery started to talk about how she saw a spider eating a leaf. Brady
then answered the question by also saying they eat leaves. Dallin said he did not know what
spiders eat. Next I told them a story of how I found a spider in my bathroom. Avery began to tell
me about how she found a spider at her cousins house in Logan. This prompted me to ask,
Where do spiders live? Dallin said, I dont know. Trey said, Underground. All the
children bent over to look at a spider crawling on the sheet. Dallin said, Spiders crawl. I asked
them as we watched the spider, What do spiders look like? When no one answered and so I
asked, How many legs do spiders have? Only Dallin answered and said eight. After that we
shook off the sheet and read a book about bugs. When we got to a page with a spider on a web.
Dallin said, Look the spider made a web! After the book was over we went inside.
From my preassessments I learned the children knew spiders make webs, spider live
underground, spiders crawl, spiders have eight legs, and spiders bit. I also learned some of the
things children dont know about spiders or have misconception about. These include children
not knowing what spiders eat or thinking they eat leaves. They also didnt know why spiders bite
and all the different places spiders can live. And they knew spiders made webs, but did not
mention why they make webs. Some of the questions some of the children had included where
spiders live and what they eat. Prior experiences the children had with spiders included Avery
seeing one at her friends house and Trey mentioning how a spider had bit him. This open-ended
activity helped me to preassess that our children have an interest in bugs and especially spiders.
There were lots of other things on the sheet, but it was the bugs and spiders which they focused
on. I selected this topic from my preassessment because of the childrens interest and also
because spiders are relevant to children right now as they are a Halloween decoration they might
see a lot. This topic is individually appropriate for the children to learn about because it is
something many of them have had experience with. It is also age appropriate because children
this age have access to the concrete real thing. And finally it is culturally appropriate because
spiders in one form or other can be found all around the world.
Ideas to be Emphasized:
1. Spiders make sticky webs that catch the bugs they eat.
2. Spiders use their fangs to poison bugs caught in their webs. Spiders dont normally bite
humans.
3. Spiders can live in all sorts of places including, underground, in bushes, and even in
human tanks.

Questions to be answered by the children:

1. What do spiders eat?
2. Why do spiders make webs?
3. Where do spiders live?

First-hand Experiences:
1. Children will look for spiders and their webs in bushes and trees on the playground.
2. Children will watch Webby crawl around in her cage.
3. Children will see Webby spin her sticky web.
4. Children will see the cricket we feed Webby.

BYU-Idaho Preschool Lesson Plan

 Lesson Plan #14
Lab #5
Spiders

Date: Friday, October 30, 2015

Supervisor: Cristabel Ethridge
Lead Teacher: Cristabel Ethridge, Monica Rosales, and Ali Wilcox

Ideas to be Emphasized:
1. Spiders make sticky webs that catch the bugs they eat.
2. Spiders use their fangs to poison bugs caught in their webs. Spiders dont normally bite humans.
3. Spiders can live in all sorts of places including, underground, in bushes, and even in human
tanks.

Preschool Concepts or Skills:

1. Counting, number recognition
2. Size; big and little
3. Outside/ Inside

Assignments:
___________________ Self-Selected _______________ Floater/Runner/Snack
___________________ Small/Focus Groups _________ /_________ Booth/ Photographer
___________________ Outdoor play _______________ Greeter/Walkie (Lead Teacher)
_________ /_________ Snack _______________ Data Collector

Special instructions for the day: None

SELF-SELECTED ACTIVITIES 1:20 - 2:50 p.m.

Literacy Activities/ Books: Embedded in the block self selected activity. These book will be available for the
children in the reading area, Amazing Spiders by Alexandra Parsons (PP6) and Spiders by Gail Gibbons (PF6).

Activity Name Description/Activity Objective Materials, Special Set-up

*Creative Art: Activity Description: Children will use the White Tempera Paint (RR1 O)
Marble Spider Webs marbles in their pie tin to make a spider web with Marbles (RR1 W10)
(5) the white paint on the black construction paper. Pie Tin (IWP)
Child Objective: Children will discover a new Black Construction paper (WR)
way to make art. This activity will allow the Paint containers (RR1)
children to discover a new way to create art. The
children should make spider webs and use the
marbles to move the paint where they want it to go.
 This activity is related to the ideas to be
emphasized because it shows a creative way that
children can make spider webs. (D4 G47)

*Manipulatives: Yarn Activity Description: Children will weave yarn in Paper plates (IWP)
Spider Web and out of a paper plate to create a spider web. Yarn (RR1-9)
@ (3) Paper plates will have holes made with a hole Tape (artcart)
puncher. Teachers will aid children in taping yarn Hole Puncher (RR1-18)
to the back of their plates.
Child Objective: Children will use their fine
motor skills to put the yarn through the paper
plates IELG D2 G18.This is related to my ideas to
be emphasized because it is a creative way to teach
the children about spider webs.

Math: Spider Leg Activity Description: Children will match number Clothes Pins (RR1-AS14)
Counting (4) of dots on clothes pin to the numbers on a body of Paper Spider (IWP)
a spider. There will be eight clothespins for each
spider
Child Objective: This activity will aid children in
mathematical skills. They will practice counting
and pairing.

*Science: Activity Description: Children can look at Webby

Observing Webby (4) magnified glasses to observe Webby. They can also Magnifying glasses (RR1 P74)
draw Webby with the pencils and papers provided. Paper and Pencils (Art Cart)
This is related to our ideas to be emphasized Spider Castings (Bro. Godfrey)
because they will see that weebly doesnt normally
bite humans and lives in a tank.
Child Objective: Children will use their
observation skills to observe Webby and the
different characteristics that a spider has.

Sensory Table: Itsy Activity Description: Children will use sensory Plastic Spiders (IWP)
Bitsy Spider tools to pick up water and push plastic spiders Sensory Table Tools (RR2-G120)
(3) down a ramp in the sensory table. Purple liquid Water
water color will be added to the water. Ramp (IWP)
Child Objective: Children will describe their Purple Water Color (RR1-15)
sensory experience of using the spiders in the
water and sliding them down the ramp. Teachers
can ask the children how the materials in the
sensory table feel and ask them what they feel.
They can also ask them about spiders and where
they have seen spiders before.

Blocks: Activity Description: Children will practice letter Scotch Tape (RR1)
Alphabet Web recognition and balance in the block area. A spider Alphabet Blocks (RR2-B183)
(4) web will be made with scotch tape on the carpet.
Alphabet blocks will be spread out on the web,
children will name different letters and spell their
names with the blocks.
Child Objective: Children will move through the
web and use the alphabet blocks to become
familiar with the letters.

*Dramatic Play: Activity Description: The children will explore Leaves (IWP)
Spider Habitat the spider habitat we make in the dramatic play Plastic Spiders (IWP)
(4) area to show the different places that a spider can Halloween spider webs (IWP)
live in. There will be leaves that we can put on the Discovery kits (RR1 P1)
loft to look like bushes. There will also be spiders Magnifying glasses (RR1 P8)
and webs all over the place. Bug Collection (RR1 P32)
Child Objective: Children will pretend that they Animal costumes(RR2 Y61)
are explorers in a spider habitat. They will be able
to see the different spiders in their habitats. (D1
G15)

Alternatives:

*Creative Art: Description: There will be paper with a spider Paper (RR2)
Invisible Spider Web web drawn on it with white crayon. The children White Crayon (RR1-AS12)
Water Painting will use water colors to paint the paper and the Water Colors (RR1-AS15)
spider web will appear because the crayon will not
allow the water color to show up.

2nd: Play dough Description: Children will be able to mold the Play Dough (Classroom Closet)
play dough to make spiders. They can mold it into
a ball and make legs with the playdough as well.
Talk to the children about the parts of the spider
and how many legs a spider has.

ROTATING SNACK 1:00-1:50 p.m.

Slice of pumpkin bread and milk

OUTDOOR PLAY 1:10-1:50 p.m. Location: South Playground

*Gross Motor: Description: There will be 2 hulu hoops hung up Masking Tape (Art Cart)
Sticky Spider Web outside with masking tape webs made on them. Hula Hoops (GG)
The children can throw the cotton balls at the web Cotton Balls (RR1 O25)
and they will stick to the masking tape web. This is
related to our ideas to be emphasized because it The hula hoops will be hung up
 will help the children learn that spiders make outside.
sticky webs to catch insects.
Objective: Children will use their gross motor
skills to throw the cotton ball at the spider webs.
This relates to the ideas to be emphasized because
it shows the concept that the sticky webs that
spiders make can catch food.

2nd: Crawling Web Description: Children will uses their legs and White Yarn (RR1- Art supply 9)
Maze arms to crawl under a web made of white yarn to
get from one end to another. Yarn will be tied Activity should be set up in
under the playground structure to create a large underneath playground structure.
web.
Objective: Children will use physical activity by
using their large muscles to crawl. D2 G17
Children will use their large gross motor skills as
they maneuver themselves through the web.

3rd: Trampolines Description: The children can jump on the Trampolines (2- GG)
trampolines that were put out for them.
Objective: Children will us their gross motor skills
to jump on the trampoline.

CLEAN UP 1:50-1:55 p.m.

Teachers will sing Its Clean Up Time in Preschool, Twice

GATHERING TIME 2:55-3:10 p.m.

.Transition
Teacher will play Theres a Spider on the Floor By Raffi. Children will get spider cut outs when they get to the
circle. Children will have the spider crawl where the song says.

Activity Name Description Materials

1. Spiders make sticky Miss Cristabel will bring out the pet tarantula and Webby
webs that catch the show the children Webby. She will show them the Gloves (K)
bugs they eat. different parts of the spider while Miss Ali talks Blue Towel (Laundry Room)
2. Spiders use their about them. We will show them the spider web that
fangs to poison bugs Webby makes.
caught in their webs.
Spiders dont normally Tell the children that Webby is a type of spider
bite humans. called a tarantula. Tarantulas make very cool webs
that are on the floor of the cage. They produce silk.

Show the children the web in the cage. Bring

 Webby out on a blue towel to see if it will spin the
silk on the towel.

(If there is time, show the children the spider

moltings and show them the different parts of the
spider.)

D3 G34 Children will adjust and adapt to Webby

being let out of her cage.

3. Spiders can live in Children will sing the Itsy Bitsy Spider song as I Itsy Bitsy Spider Felt Pieces (IWP)
all sorts of places use the felt pieces to illustrate the song. Sing 2-3 Spider Cutouts (IWP)
including, times. I will also have other felt pieces that will
underground, in show the other places that spiders live in a paper
bushes, and even in bag. We will the chant while I pull out the different
human tanks. pictures from the bag. I will ask the children if they
have seen a spider in that place before.
Each child can get a spider cutout to use as they
sing the song.

Transition to Small Children will be dismissed to their small focus Spider Puppet (WR Cabinet 1&2
Focus Groups groups once the crawling spider touches their head. shelf 1)
Lead teacher will have a spider on a string and tell
the children that once the spider touches their head
they can go with their teacher.

SMALL FOCUS GROUP

3:10-3:25 p.m.

Group #1 Group #2 Group #3 Group #4

Your Activity Description & Objective Materials

Collecting Spiders in Our Description: Teacher will take children out in the 1)Blanket/ Sheet (IWP)
Playground playground for small focus. Children will help 2) Jar (IWP)
carry a blanket and place it under the willow hut. 3) Magnifying Glass
Teacher should then instruct children to shake the (RR1-74)
hut. After, children will carefully grab the blanket 4) The Very Busy Spider by
and place it in the grass. Teacher will have a jar Eric Carle (C6)
where children will collect all the spiders they see 5) Spiders by Rebecca
on the blanket. Teacher will then give the children Gilpin G30
magnifying glasses so they can have a closer look
at the spiders. Teacher will explain that spiders
can live in many different places, but these spiders
live in the willow hut. The teacher should also
explain that spiders may have built webs to catch
food like other insects that live in the willow hut.
Objective: This activity will give children a first-
 hand experience with spiders. It relates to our
ideas to be emphasized because it will show the
children a specific habitat in which spiders
actually live in. They will also learn that other
insects which live in the willow hut can be the
spider's meal.

CLOSING CIRCLE 3:25-3:40 p.m.

Transition Children will sing If Youre Happy and you Know it, and make body movements according to what the
song says

Activity Name Description Materials

Insect Caught in the Web
Children will sit in a circle, the teacher will go around giving Yarn (RR1- Art
them a piece of yarn while creating a web. Teacher will have supply 9)
different pictures of insects on the flannel board. Child will Pictures of Insects
pick an insect from the flannel board (ex: fly, grasshopper, (IWP)
crickets) and will then pretend to be the insect and crawl
under the web. Support teachers should help hold the yarn so
it doesnt fall on the children. Another support teacher will
help guide the child to crawl under the rug and then sit back
down and grab the yarn.

5 Green and Speckled Frogs Children will sing 5 green and speckled frogs with the
teachers as they do the gestures.

Phonemic Awareness
Teacher will draw a picture of a boy on a chalk board. Chalk Board
Children will fill in the missing rhyme, then teacher will (RR1)
erase the corresponding portion of the picture. Example; He Chalk and Erasers
cant smell a rose, if you erase his nose. He cant play in a (RR1-AS8)
band, if you erase his hand. He doesnt wear a tie, erase an
eye. etc.

Music Children will sing Goin on A Bear Hunt and will make
corresponding body movements to the song.

Story/ Book Feathers for Lunch by Lois Ehlert RR2-BE1

Mystery Box Children will put their hand in a box where they will try to Mystery Box
guess what is inside. (IWP)

Activity Dice There will be two dice for children to roll, one will have an Activity Dice
 action and the other will have an animal. Children will act (IWP)
out the action according to the animal the dice lands on.

WORDS TO SONGS & FINGERPLAYS):

Brown Bag, Brown Bag Chant
Brown Bag, brown bag whats inside, give us a piece of what you hide.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

The Itsy Bitsy Spider crawled up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain.
So the Itsy Bitsy Spider crawled up the spout again.

If Youre Happy and You Know It

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know it stomp your feet.
If you're happy and you know it stop your feet.
If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you're happy and you know it stop your feet.
If you're happy and you know it shout "Horray!"
If you're happy and you know it shout "Horray!"
If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you're happy and you know it shout "Horray!"

Rhyme Away Story

He cant smell a rose, if you erase his NOSE
He cant play in a band, if you erase his HAND
He doesnt wear a tie, erase an EYE
He doesnt care, if you erase his HAIR
Dont ask why, erase his other EYE
Never fear, erase an EAR
Hell be a real reck, if you erase his NECK
He wont wont feel heat, if you erase his FEET
It wont hurt, if you erase his SHIRT
He cant dance, if you erase his PANTS
He cant go to bed, if you erase his HEAD

RESOURCES :
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Pinterest.com
Christabel Ethridge