{"id":67,"date":"2016-11-01T23:12:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mom\/?p=67"},"modified":"2016-11-01T23:12:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:12:33","slug":"a-little-visitor-in-our-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mom\/2016\/11\/01\/a-little-visitor-in-our-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"A little visitor in our classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have \u00a0little 8-legged visitors these days: crawling on the walls, on the floor, jumping from space to space. The children are excited, or scared, and if one child sees it, there’s a couple or three, or even more children crowded around the little intruder.\u00a0We took this opportunity to talk about this tiny\u00a0visitor who does\u00a0nothing harmful to\u00a0our classroom. \u00a0We said the spider was just curious to find out\u00a0what was going on. The children learned to let\u00a0the spiders be free.<\/p>\n

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So, we wanted to learn\u00a0more about the spiders who visit our classroom. They are, in one sense, our pets,\u00a0which\u00a0we can observe their movements. \u00a0We read the book “The Very Busy Spider<\/strong>” by Eric Carl.<\/strong>\u00a0 The children learned that spiders are\u00a0busy workers, which\u00a0weave artistic webs to catch\u00a0dinner. The children\u00a0can\u00a0look at the beautiful webs spiders\u00a0make.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0October, the Montessori and\u00a0Elementary School had a joint\u00a0Fun Day, <\/strong>whose\u00a0theme was “Reading.” The elementary students dressed up as characters from books. \u00a0Each class decorated their door. We\u00a0decided to create\u00a0a spider on its\u00a0web catching insects, which was based on our favorite Eric Carl’s storybook. \u00a0The children also drew farm animals inviting the spider to play with them, though\u00a0the “Spider was very busy spinning her web.”<\/p>\n

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We’ve learned that spiders are not actually in the family of insects; they are arachnids. \u00a0Spiders have 8 simple eyes to enable them to\u00a0have a complete\u00a0view around them. \u00a0We learned the names of the spider’s different parts. \u00a0Cephalothorax (yes, a big name!) and abdomen are the two sections. \u00a0Spiders\u00a0have 8 legs and also 2 pedipalps, which\u00a0are used like arms to catch their prey. \u00a0From the spinneret at the bottom of\u00a0their abdomen, the spiders\u00a0spin silky threads to make their attractive web patterns.<\/p>\n

Now that they\u00a0know more about spiders, the children are excited to “observe” when they encounter spiders. \u00a0One child said, “I counted 8 legs”; another announced, “I saw the little pedipalps”; one classmate sighed, “I couldn’t\u00a0count 8 eyes.” \u00a0Another child shouted from the bathroom, “There’s an arachnid in the bathroom!” \u00a0Now we are not scared of spiders.<\/p>\n

On the Fun Day,<\/strong> \u00a0the children got to walk around the Montessori building, as well as Elementary halls, to see other classes’ Door Decorations. \u00a0Our class went to see Ms.Catherine’s and Ms.Sallie’s doors,<\/p>\n

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the two first grade classrooms, 1P ad 1G, and the Elementary School classrooms on the other side.<\/p>\n

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The Elementary music teacher, Ms.Lee, and our movements teacher,\u00a0Mrs. Okaguchi, came to read us a book.<\/p>\n

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Some of us\u00a0visited\u00a0the French classroom\u00a0next door, where a\u00a0French mom read us a story in French!<\/p>\n

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Oh, after lunch, we all enjoyed\u00a0a special cold dessert\u2014yes, ice cream!<\/p>\n

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We also had some Elementary school teacher and students come to our classroom to help us make book markers to take home.<\/p>\n

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\nWe certainly had a\u00a0Fun Day<\/strong>. \u00a0The children had a lot to tell their\u00a0moms and dads when they\u00a0got home.<\/p>\n

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They\u00a0love reading books.<\/p>\n

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We have \u00a0little 8-legged visitors these days: crawling on the walls, on the floor, jumping from space to space. The children are excited, or scared, and if one child sees it, there’s a couple or three, or even more children crowded around the little intruder.\u00a0We took this opportunity to talk about this tiny\u00a0visitor who does\u00a0nothing…
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