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I slid into bed and wiggled my legs between the sheets toward the foot of the bed.  As I stretched out, ready to relax, my toes touched something cold, slippery and slimy.
“Ahhhhhh!” I screamed. 
I threw back the the covers and jumped out of bed.
“What’s the matter?” my husband asked.
“Something awful is in the bed,” I replied.
I heard giggling as Jim drew the covers back further.  Then more giggling.
“It’s only a big toy spider,” he remarked.  “Nothing to be afraid of.”
Then the giggling coming from my daughter’s bedroom, where she and her girl friend were sleeping,  grew louder.
They have never let …read more

October is officially Spider Month so everyone better watch out, especially if you are an old lady. I have collected some fun activities for each grade set but there are so many out there (I tried to find the best ones for you!).
Printables
Letter S: Work in the letter S into the spider theme.
Insect Coloring Pages  
Preschool-K
Make Spider Gliders: Watch spiders glide through the air.
 Itsy Bitsy Spider Finger Puppets
Spider Cobwebs: Make your own cobwebs with marbles!
Elementary
Spider Scavenger Hunt:  Practice Dictionary skills. Grades 2-3
Middle School
Spider Sniffing: Learn how to “Sniff out” spiders at night with just a flashlight.
Preserve a web: Webs are …read more

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