Maple Group - What Do Spiders Eat?

Central Idea:  Crawling creatures are an important part of our ecosystem

Lines of Inquiry:

Form - Features of crawling creatures

Causation - Crawling creatures affect the ecosystem

Maple group children shared the criteria they learned about spiders. The children were curious about what bugs eat from the previous group time. "What do spiders eat?" the children were asked. "Flies!" the children answered. Do you know spiders actually eat a lot more other insects and animals! Therefore, we started with a video about spiders' food.

We made a chart records spiders' food we learned from the video. the children were amazed by the fact that some spiders eat bats and birds! We also learned that some spiders need web to catch their preys and some don't need a web.

The children make spider webs with glue and thread.

The children made their own spider web with thread and glue. Then, we made a spider with clay and pipe cleaners. The children carefully rolled two clay balls for the two body parts and counted eight pipe cleaners for the spider legs!