That is what we learned in class this week. The children listened to many nonfiction and a few fiction books about spiders. They made TLC spiders and wrote Spider Facts. These spiders are hanging in their webs in our classroom windows.
We sang "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "There's a Spider on the Floor". The children made TLC illustrations for the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet."
The children did marble paintings to make spider webs and then glued die cut spiders in the webs.
In addition to spider facts and fun, the children listened to The Art Lesson by Tomie de Paola. I showed them how I used sticky notes to leave tracks of my thinking as I was reading. Then they had a chance to record their own thinking on a sticky note and add it to our chart. We talked about the difference between fake reading and real reading. With fake reading, you just say the words without thinking about them. With real reading, you think about what the words mean as you are reading. Right now most of the books that the children read on their own are easy and don't require too much thinking so we practice our thinking strategies with books that I read to them. We have some terrific thinkers in our class!
The children continue to practice reading to themselves and to a partner. They seem to especially enjoy reading with a friend. 
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