In the Tall Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
Ugh! A Bug by Mary Bono
Songs & Fingerplays:
Night Flyers
(chenille pipe cleaners cut in quarters and bent in a moth shapre to fit around fingers, 2 per child)
Two Little Moths
Flying in the night
One goes left;
One goes right.
One goes up;
One goes down.
Then they fly around and around.
Tow little moths
Flying in the night
They stop
And they go
Until the morning light.
Movement Songs:
Flick a Fly (Amy Rogel cd)
Walter the Waltzing Worm (use crepe paper strips as 'worms')
Activities:
In the Tall Tall Grass
We'll use bug stickers and paint and bug shaped stamps to create Tall Tall Grass pictures!
Dot Bugs
Using colorful dot stickers and colored pencils we'll create bug scenes.
Flick a Fly
We'll develop eye-hand coordination as we swat at black pom pom 'flies' with fly swatters!
Large Group Activity:
Parachute Games!
Ideas for Home:
Worm Hunt: next time it rains go outside and search for worms! Or if you don't feel like waiting for the rain, cut up brown pipe cleaners and spread them around your lawn, then let the kids use toilet paper spy tubes to search them out!
Bug Habitiat: dig up a hunk up grass and dirt, put it in a terrarium and spend the afternoon watching who come creeping out.
Check out Insect Lore for great bug resources! We've done the lady bug kit, the butterfly garden and the frog kit at my house with great success.
Don't forget we have one more week left, a make-up class for the one we missed...and we have special visitors coming!
