They are everywhere this month (including my front porch!)! Spiders are everywhere and I just can’t get enough. And, apparently either can you because you keep searching and asking for them. So, here is what you are looking for…lesson plans, coloring pages, books, and more! Enjoy Spiders (can’t believe I just said that…Ugh)
Label and color a spider 
The Spider Life Cycle 
Spider craft…Make a spider that can climb a waterspout! 
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Spider Pop-up Card
Units, themes, and lesson plans! 

I was never a spider lover myself but for some reason little boys live spider webs and they certainly love spiders. In fact, Google has even named their search engines after spiders because of the creepy crawly legs that reach out to all parts of the Internet.
But, when did we, as children, start learning spider tales? Well, there are the pre-school versions of the Itsy Bitsy Spider, There was an old lady…, etc.
And apparently, October is the month for SPIDERS! Classrooms all over the country are building webs, singing spider songs, and counting legs. Over the next few days watch …read more

Dr. Seuss is the master of all Rhyming and children’s books but what you may not know is that he is also a fabulous teacher. Most of us know that Seuss was not the most responsible adults, dropping out of college to travel Europe and contributing political cartoons in his early career.
His first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, published, however, required a great degree of persistence – it was rejected 27 times before being published by Vanguard Press. The Cat in the Hat, perhaps

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(Although Julie & The Lost Fairy Tale isn’t specifically a time travel novel, like others we’ve mentioned duing Time Travel Week, it does take the reader back into the childhood of Julie’s grandmother and we learn about another era.)
 Stories published as serials in newspapers before they’re compiled into book form dates back to Charles Dickens and other early novelists. Janie Lancaster, author of Julie & the Lost Fairy Tale,  experienced this.   Her book was available in numerous newspapers for the enjoyment of young readers before it appeared in book format this spring, published by Star Publish, LLC.
According to the synopsis, “In Julie’s story, you come …read more