I was thinking how to incorporate fun cutesy activities for Halloween into our 5th grade curriculum, so I scored the internet and past activities from first and came up with F and O Spiders.
The first thing that we did was brain storm about what we already about spiders… I didn’t give any parameters and the list was pretty good. Here’s what the kids came up with:
then we used our schema to make a True and False T Chart
Then students broke off into groups and read a book about spiders and took statements from their books to make there own t charts:
Then I took this adorable spider from ChalkTalk: A Kindergarten blog and just added the Fact and opinion strips the kids glued to the legs before then glued them on the paper:
Very Spooktacular!