In this book, our little spider gets sent flying by a gust of wind and meets all sort of different farm animals on his journey. The pages are big and the silk webs are glittery making them fun to follow with your finger.
Age: 4-6 It was a big hit with the four year olds.
Language points:
The nursery rhyme features the rain and the sun, so it can be a good idea to teach other weather nouns too. I chose wind, as it's in the book, but it could be a good idea to teach snow and clouds too. The book features the farm animals cow, horse, cockerel (I used chicken instead) goat, duck and pig.
It's also good for reviewing the animal noises and colours.
Procedure:
Start the lesson by teaching the types of weather plus the words 'incey wincey spider' and 'water spout.' Play the say yes when you see the.... game (jump for yes, twist for no) and drill actions. You could also play simon says.
Slowly say the words and demonstrate the actions. Encourage children to do the actions for you. This video shows you how.
- Read the story, encouraging children to say the names of the animals and make the noises with you. (I didn't do the story in the first lesson as I focussed on the rhyme, but in my second and third).
- Table time: I drew a picture of a spider web next to a water spout and the children had to draw the spider and colour it in. This was a big hit.
- Drill the rhyme again and encourage the older children especially, to join in with the words. It could be a good time to introduce the melody too.
- Watch the video with the children.
Extensions:
Draw pictures with different skies, windy, snowy, sunny and rainy for example. I gave my students a worksheet with four different houses and the words to trace underneath. I drew a girl outside wearing appropriate clothes for each sky to help comprehension.
or:
Pipe cleaner spider craft, if you have enough pipe cleaners!
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| Googly eyes optional... |
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| Complete with water spout for reenactments! |
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